Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Quotes to Explore
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.
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The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I'll do anything for you.
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
