Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

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

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• I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

  

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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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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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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• 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.

  

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• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

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

  

  Laura Dern
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• Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.

  

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• I'm really boring. I think about cooking all the time. I have a little book, so when I go out or see something, I jot it down and try to include it in a recipe or do a variation of it. I even have a notepad by my bed, which is usually saying we're running out of mango chutney.

  

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• The Government has now resolved to enter upon an arms race, and the people will have to pay for their mistake in believing that it could be trusted to carry out a policy of peace. … This is a War Budget. We can look in the future for no advance in Social Legislation. All available resources are to be devoted to armaments.

  

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• Lloyd George then went on to say that the Imperial Conference had had a meeting that morning, and that he, Smuts, Hughes and Massey did not intend to allow the British Empire to take a back seat. Gt Britain had won the war. She had made enormous sacrifices in men and money, and they were quite determined that she should not be overshadowed by America.

  

  David Lloyd George
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• People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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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