Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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A lot of films come out before they're finished.
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I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.
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There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
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I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.
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I play Captain Lance Van Der Berg, who's a Union captain who ends up staying with the Confederate family who's been taken over by the army when they come into the city in Virginia. He strikes up a romance with the youngest daughter in the house, which obviously causes some issues for the family.
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I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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A starving army is actually worse than none.
