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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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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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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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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We cut tax exemptions in 1986, it was the most admired tax reform in U.S. history. Congress and the president worked together then to eliminate scores of loopholes and exemptions and deductions; this made taxes much simpler, and allowed a major cut in tax rates.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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You are all lions – so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.
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Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.
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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.
