Christopher Columbus Quotes
I promise this, that if I am supported by our most invincible sovereigns with a little of their help, as much gold can be supplied as they will need, indeed as much of spices, of cotton, of mastic gum (which is only found in Chios), also as much of aloes wood, and as many slaves for the navy, as their Majesties will wish to demand.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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I refuse to be silenced.
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The book you don't read won't help.
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We will revive the emergency employment program established by former President Corazon Aquino. This will provide jobs for local communities and will help in the development of their and our economy.
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When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
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The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
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I promise this, that if I am supported by our most invincible sovereigns with a little of their help, as much gold can be supplied as they will need, indeed as much of spices, of cotton, of mastic gum (which is only found in Chios), also as much of aloes wood, and as many slaves for the navy, as their Majesties will wish to demand.
