Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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I think the United States is way behind the times.
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'A Chorus Line' never dies; it just keeps opening doors and giving back to me - but there was a time when I considered it an albatross around my neck.
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In a media age where books are no longer the primary medium for information storage and exchange, language must be reclaimed from the hucksters and the pedants and imaginatively reinforced. To save literature, educators must take command of the pre-rational world of images. The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
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There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
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Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
