Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere.
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The sole equality on earth is death.
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I was going to design sports cars, but my father came to my college to visit me. At the time he was making a picture in Sweden and he took me there with him. I got to see Ingmar Bergman's company and I thought, 'Gee, filmmaking is a lot more fun than sports cars,' so I decided to follow him and go into acting.
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However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.
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I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.
