Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
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The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
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I did grow up with Michael Landau, my brother since we were 12 years old. That was competition but in the best way. He is such a monster, always was, and we had a blast growing up playing in bands and early recording and are still the best of pals.
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Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
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I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies – and those bodies were so dear to me!
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All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
