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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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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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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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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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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When you make the playoffs, it's like you've done your job for the team. I've got that moment in my mind all the time, and I want to be there again.
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It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.
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When I joined Lille, they had a new stadium at Marseille. It was the same, so I know how important it is to clubs when they move home.
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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.
