Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
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Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
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...at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we are ready to move on, to go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self.
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Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
