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'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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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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It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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Money, hoes, cars and clothes, that's how all my niggas roll
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Success is dependant on effort.
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I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.
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I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.
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You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.
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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.
