Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I can be just as effective with a quick retort or a one-liner than with a big paragraph.
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?
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I had stage fright for years and years, and I could hear it in my singing. But since I've done it so often for so many years, you'd think that I'd relax a little bit, and I think that I have.
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It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.
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The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
