Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
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It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.
Damien Chazelle
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It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
W. H. Auden
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I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.
Lili Taylor
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At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.
Abraham Flexner
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Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
Ted Dekker
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I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they're making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
Alan Alda
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
Leon Trotsky
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I'm just incredibly interested in people.
Cat Deeley
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The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.
Erwin Schrodinger
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The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.
Katharine Hepburn
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I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
