Miguel (Miguel Jontel Pimentel) Quotes
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.
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The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide.
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I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.
