Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?
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I am opposed to globalism, I am opposed to colonialism, I am opposed to any sort of complusion of one nation over another. I also deeply believe in human rights.
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There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own - Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.
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Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure.Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness.Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.
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It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
