Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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	I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.   
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	The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.   
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	What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!   
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	At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.   
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	It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.   
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	I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.   
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	After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.   
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	If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.   
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	My life is so full of sacrifices.   
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	I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.   
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	Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.   
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	Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.   
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	I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.   
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	In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.   
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	Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.   
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	I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.   
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	An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.   
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	I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.   
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	As regards drink, I can only say that in Dublin during the Depression when I was growing up, drunkenness was not regarded as a social disgrace. To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.   
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	You win the victory when you yield to friends.   
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	The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.   
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	The trend is your friend.   
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	You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.   
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	The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.   
 
	
	 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					