Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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I'm very interested in science.
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Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
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I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
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I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
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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.
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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.
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I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.
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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.
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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
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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.
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I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.
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I've always been interested in Mariah Carey, Beyonce, and Leona Lewis.
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"What are you working on?” Because Ken was genuinely interested, the pair would end up in a long conversation that would be satisfying both technically and personally. Even when the company had over 100,000
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Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances
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I want to behave more like a boy... I want to be the strong one.
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I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
