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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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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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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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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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
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All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
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In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.
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Art is the one place we all turn to for solace. We turn to it constantly, whether you are listening to music, or pop in a film; you want to escape reality, and if you thinking deeply, you want to engage in art in a complex way. Art allows us to navigate the more complicated parts of our lives in a way that is more palpable. We don’t go to the movies just to see a movie; we go for the experience. I’m very interested in the experience. Art has saved my life on a regular basis. I wanted to offer that experience to children, to enlist them, to show them the possibilities that are in the arts, to persuade them to pursue it for both their own personal salvation and for changing the way we are understood.
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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.
