Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
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For me, fashion begins in New York.
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When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.
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I've always backed energy independence policies, but I've heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district.
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The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.
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I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.
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We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.
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It takes a lot of effort to look this mediocre.
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If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.
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For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.
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Definitely, it's hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.
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It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.
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We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.
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An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.
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My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.
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It was right when you were trying to hold everything tightly under control that the wind and waves decided it was high time to show you not only how vulnerable you really were, but also how precious every single moment was.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.
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Adolf is a swine. He will give us all away. He only associates with reactionaries now. His old friends aren't good enough for him. Getting matey with the East Prussian generals. They're his cronies now. Adolf is turning into a gentleman. He's got himself a tail-coat now. Adolf knows exactly what I want. I've told him often enough. Not a second edition of the old imperial army. Are we revolutionaries or aren't we? Allons, enfants de la patrie! If we are, then something new must arise out of our élan, like the mass armies of the French Revolution. If we're not, then we'll go to the dogs. We've got to produce something new, don't you see? A new discipline. A new principle of organization. The generals are a lot of old fogeys. They never had a new idea.
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The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
