Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

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• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Think
  • Age
  • Science

• It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Yourself
  • Story
  • Surprise

• I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Why
  • Son
  • Regret

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Always
  • Afraid
  • Exceptions

• I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Feel
  • Nurse
  • Secretary

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Me
  • Team

• Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Women

• I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Teach

• If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Society
  • College

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Time
  • Work
  • Passionate

• Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Knows

• I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

  

  Irving Harper
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Never

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• I ain't learn everything yet at 95. But I got good fingers, that's one thing, I got good fingers. If it weren't for them fingers I wouldn't be going now.

  

  David Edwards
  • Good

• Bill Murray is such a tremendous talent, but the world wasn't ready for 'Razor's Edge,' for something that thoughtful and with that much depth at that time in his career.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Time
  • World
  • Career

• There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

  

  Deborah Norville
  • Trying

• I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Terror
  • Protected