Napoleon Hill Quotes
No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.
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Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.
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The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
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No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.
