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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I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.
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Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.
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I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell.
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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.
