Bernal Díaz del Castillo Quotes
Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared from cocoa, and of an aphrodisiac nature, as we were told, was presented to him in golden cups... I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled with foaming chocolate of which he took some.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.
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When you talking boxing, you talking me.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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You cannot schedule death.
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Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
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There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.
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No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
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Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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I want to shine a spotlight on showing how dangerous Trump and his Twitter button can be.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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If we do not secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice.
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I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.
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I should have known it. You still have those chocolate-kiss eyes.
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Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared from cocoa, and of an aphrodisiac nature, as we were told, was presented to him in golden cups... I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled with foaming chocolate of which he took some.
