Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I'm just not doing that. There's a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.
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We were completely DIY and very opinionated. We weren't the type that sat back or do what we're told… We never listened to many people.
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I think we'll still be operating coal in 2030. Whether we will be in 2040, I think, is a question, or in 2050.
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There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
