Toussaint Louverture (François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture) Quotes
I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
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We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
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For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.
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Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.
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In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
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The environment shapes people's actions.
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Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it
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You've gotta stop making stuff up.
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The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them.
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You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help.
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Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.
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We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun.
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Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
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If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.
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But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
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When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.
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You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.
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I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.
