Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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Yielding is the way of the Tao.
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There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.
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The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.
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My first car was a 1986 Toyota pickup.
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They were running out of suspects and into dead ends. They were running into airtight alibis and out of patience. They were running up one-way alleys and phone bills. They were running down a killer who did not yet exist. They were running around in circles.
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There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
