Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
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I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
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Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.
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On the road, it's constant sensory overload, and it's easy to lose track of days and time and to get caught up in the constant giving of yourself.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.
