Duke of Wellington Quotes
I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
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If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.
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I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.
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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
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Broadway's not what it used to be.
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Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.
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The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
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I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
