Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
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Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.
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I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.
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Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.
