Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
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I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
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My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets.
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Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.
