Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
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Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'
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As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.
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I do have impossibly high standards.
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The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.
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The challenge of Mosul and Nineveh is the considerable number of ethnic groups, religious sects, tribes, and other elements that make up the province.
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I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.
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It's just a television show, we have fun with it and try to make each other crack up.
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I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time.
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People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going on. I need to eat, I need to sleep, and sometimes those things weren't considered. It was like, "When do you think I'll have time to go to the bathroom?" That wasn't on the schedule.
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Artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.
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It's true that I have not been able to completely close Guantanamo, but we've drastically reduced the population from 700 or so to around 60 now.
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One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot.
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If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.
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There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.
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If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.
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With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make it so that you could do it. It was magical. I had a lot going on, as you do when you're 17, and didn't necessarily capitalize on all of it, but it made me see possibility in a way that I hadn't before.
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A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.
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The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.
