Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
L. Neil Smith -
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
Jack Welch -
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten -
I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
Washed Out -
I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
Viggo Mortensen -
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Nathalie Sarraute
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill -
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman -
Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
Brown Campbell -
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
Uzo Aduba
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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
Ian Hacking -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
Walter O'Brien -
I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
Ira Glass -
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg -
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.
Jeremy Irvine -
People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.
Jeff Bezos -
I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.
Rachel Caine -
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte