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Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Every man is the son of his own works.

Miguel de Cervantes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: spanish
Birth: September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

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Son Man Own Every Man Every Works

There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.

Quiet Something Industrious About

L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.

Live People Think Friends You Go

I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace.

Bike Free Slow You Gym Go

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

Man Thought Illusion Young Young Man

Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.

Knowledge Children Time Brain Think

I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.

Money Saying You Washington Debt

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

Luxury Labor Now Empires Check Own

There's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

Reality Little Got Show Fatigue Bit

In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you're a major movie star, you know.

Today Day You Television Know Over

I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.

Men Strong Problem Powerful Find

I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually.

Skills Say Would Finer Actually

Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously.

Good Yourself Story Trying You More

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