Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
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I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
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So many people are following fashion now. It's become fashion-tainment.
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The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
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So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.
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But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.
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There's a crowd of people harbored in every person, there are so many roles that we play.And you've decided to love me for eternity. I'm still deciding who I want to be today'
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.
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A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!
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When terrorists blew up the Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reagan was frustrated and furious, as Bush was after 9/11. But he didn't stick us in a war in the Middle East with no exit.
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I always say this - As an actor, we're lucky to get a job. Then we're lucky that anybody gives a damn to watch the thing that we're in.
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The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.
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As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?
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I liked to scrapbook and collage a whole lot in high school. I'm always ripping things out of magazines, and always collecting quotes from the Internet. When I was 17, I loved AIM. I was obsessed with my buddy list!
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While it may be difficult to get on the front cover of a major magazine, you can create marketing strategies and opportunities by being featured in a popular niche blog.
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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.
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This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.
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Keep your eyes on the ball sooner or later this will be finished.
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We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society . . . . What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed.
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Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
