Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
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'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.
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All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.
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The Church and the world and women are crying for men, men who are developing their capacity and talents, who are willing to work and make sacrifices, who will help others achieve happiness and salvation.
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Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.
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Dance Monkey' is about the bad side of busking.
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I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair.
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A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits.
