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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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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Every decade or so, the world is tested by a crisis so grave that it breaks the mould: one so horrific and inhumane that the response of politicians to it becomes emblematic of their generation -their moral leadership or cowardice, their resolution or incompetence. It is how history judges us.
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No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.
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Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.
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Imagination rules the world.
