Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
Earl Monroe
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The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.
Naomi Klein
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
Randall Jarrell
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
Illeana Douglas
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I got no hate in me.
Waris Ahluwalia
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
Ice Cube
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
Olivia Colman
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
J. G. Ballard
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
Nathan Myhrvold
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
Oren Peli
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Habits change into character.
Ovid
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
Hans Blix
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
Ja Rule
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
Wayne Gretzky
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
Walter Matthau
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Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.
R. C. Sproul
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Aim at a high mark and you will hit it.
Annie Oakley
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We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
Paul Prudhomme
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.
Chet Baker
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Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
Napoleon Bonaparte