Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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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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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I'm curvy.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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Actor's life is very long.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.
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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.
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I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I'm not precious, if it moves the story and doesn't take away from it.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
