Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'
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The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.
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A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.
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You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes.
