Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

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• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

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• In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

  

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• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

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• You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

  

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• I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

  

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• For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.

  

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• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

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• Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

  

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• Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.

  

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• The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

  

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• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

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• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

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• You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.

  

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• You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

  

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• Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

  

  Walter Chrysler
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• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

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• I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

  

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• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory and good fortune.

  

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• Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

  

  Mark Shields
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• As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.

  

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• Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.

  

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• Shake Shack started off as a summer hot dog cart in Madison Square Park. It was not meant to be a company - it was completely accidental. It started off as an expression of community building.

  

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• Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • War
  • Principle
  • Lightning