Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.
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The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.
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As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.
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When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.
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I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
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War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.
