Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I don't watch TV.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.
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For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.
