Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Prince Charles is the best-dressed man in the world.
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Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the outside world for so long under Saddam. But I think there's a deeper reason, which is that it messes with our assumptions - not just about Iraq, but about culture and human nature.
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Imagination rules the world.
