Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

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• I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Never

• I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Sad
  • Election
  • Capable

• Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Real
  • Game
  • Fire

• With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Speed
  • Canvas

• I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Believe
  • Fight
  • Believe In Yourself

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Me
  • Confidence
  • Understand

• A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Women
  • Hunger

• So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Why
  • Political
  • Fire

• The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Time
  • Light
  • Comfortable

• I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Sorry
  • Saying
  • Drunk

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• The most important thing in life is to love what you're doing, because that's the only way you'll ever be really good at it.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.

  

  Ben Webster
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Play

• The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to it's limited in voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

  

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Moments
  • Fulfillment
  • Worthwhile

• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Today
  • Free
  • Exercise

• One suggestion is to regard your personality as a pet. It follows you around anyway, so give it a name and make friends with it. Keep it on a leash when you need to, and let it run free when you feel that is appropriate. Train it as well as you can, and then accept its idiosyncrasies, but always remember that your pet is not you. Your pet has its own life, and just happens to be in an intimate relationship with you, whoever you may be, hiding there behind your personality.

  

  Wes Nisker
  • Running
  • Personality
  • Accepting

• I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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