Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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And I like music, too, I like playing music.
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There is quite a lot of news coming out of Japan, which I think is putting the yen under some weakness.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
