Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.
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The poet must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
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The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
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I love to work with people who are great at what they do.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
