Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

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• God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

  

  Walter Annenberg
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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

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  • Needs
  • Cuba
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• I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
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• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Happy
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• If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
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• Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.

  

  Francesco Totti
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• Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

  

  Yves Behar
  • World
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• We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Change
  • Evolve
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• I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
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• Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Over
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• Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • You
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• I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Know
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• If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
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• It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Always
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• Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
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• One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.

  

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• I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

  

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  • Hate
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  • Common Sense

• I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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  • Know
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• Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

  

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  • Time
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  • Women

• Yorkshire weather can turn quickly. At one Auld Lang Syne race, it dropped to -16C. The frost turned everybody's hair grey. I couldn't take my shoes off, as my laces had frozen solid.

  

  Jonathan Brownlee
  • Hair
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  • Frozen

• Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.

  

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  • Fear
  • Action
  • Moral

• Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Hair
  • Events
  • Depend