Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
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If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
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Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.
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There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
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Men create the gods after their own images.
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I think there's huge room for a personality who can create a following, and that personality can be a person or a company.
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I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
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Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.
