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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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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I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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I learned that the majority of the time, simplicity is the best way to go about things as you peel away the layers... that's when you start finding the gold... I can't say that was from my own acting. That was from observing actors like John Spencer and Martin Sheen... I had a chance just to observe.
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My dad could hold a tune. He wasn't necessarily a singer, but he did love music, and he listened to it quite loud in the car.
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Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home.
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I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.
