Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help?
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I love film. I love going to see films; I always have. I've done quite a few.
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I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.
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Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.
