Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Quotes to Explore
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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I do not like violence.
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There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
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Cute in Ireland meant cunning and devious … And I'm not sure that I'm not.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
