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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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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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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Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.
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The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.
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Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.
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I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
