Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.
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This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
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I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
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During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.
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Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working with language coaches in Los Angeles to get rid of the accent completely.
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It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.
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If you want to be --ing individual, don’t get a tattoo. Every --er’s got one these days.
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I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
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You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.
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In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.
