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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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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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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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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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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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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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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I think I had a fur coat that someone bought me from Portobello Market back in the 1960s, but I think as soon as you think about it, what it is you're wearing, make that connection, then you realise it's just not right. I don't lecture people about it, but it's not something I'd ever wear.
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I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
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A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.
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It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at home. Like the vast majority of people in America, I couldn't take unpaid leave.
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In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.
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I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
