Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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Small aim is a crime.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
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If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.
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I was raised to believe that you're safe in God's hands. But I don't feel safe with myself.
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People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism...
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The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.
