Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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I don't believe in regret.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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Never regret what you don't write.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.
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Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.
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Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.
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My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.
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I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement...last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice was young, my election gave one more young person, hope...
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It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.
