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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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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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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I'm no producer's kid.
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I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who really look up to the work that I do. It's really cool that I have such awesome fans, and I can't thank them enough. I get on my Twitter and Facebook every day, and I see such awesome things.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
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The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.
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I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.
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I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
