Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.
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Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.
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I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile in "Cars". That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?
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I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.
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We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too
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How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
