Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

Miguel de Unamuno

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• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

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• I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.

  

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• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
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• The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Up
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• What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

  

  Ice Cube
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• Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

  

  Zaha Hadid
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• You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Design
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• Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Good
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• I can guarantee that not because I give Attorney General [Loretta] Lynch a directive. That is institutionally how we have always operated. I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations [On Hillary Clinton].

  

  Barack Obama
  • Giving
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• Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the outside, but is also good and noble on the inside in terms of character and in terms of purpose. And I think that's a fine description of the friendship that exists between the Greek people and the American people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
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• It was a wonderful thing to see the guys again.

  

  Bob Shaw
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• You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Having a kid is great... as long as his eyes are closed and he's not moving or speaking.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Great
  • Long
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• The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
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  • Bread

• I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Bread

• My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Selling
  • Bread
  • Agitate