Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
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I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? … No other human institution comes close.
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Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
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There is a dark side to Allan Guthrie, but only at the weekends.
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The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
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Suits change a lot - the wide lapel thing, the fashion trends, the trousers change.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.
