Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.
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For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
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I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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In Kansas City, most of the time, if we'd have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn't that good.
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True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.
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Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.
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I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town to try out. I worked backstage at summer stock doing jobs from garbage man to strapping on Herbert Marshall's wooden leg to fixing Gloria Swanson's broken plumbing in her dressing room with her yelling at me as I worked the plunger.
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There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.
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He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.
