Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.
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As a photographer who is constantly in violent, bloody situations where the instinct is to turn away, I am always trying to figure out how to make people not turn away.
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When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.
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Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
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Life is a hill that gets steeper the more you climb.
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True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
