Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
Nas -
I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
Gabriel Iglesias -
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
Imogen Heap -
Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
Patricia Riggen -
During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
Laird Barron
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
K. D. Lang -
My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
Halsey -
I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
Dana Perino -
However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
Ed Markey -
Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
Dan Farmer -
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
Ted Chiang
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
Sami Gayle -
I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
Natalie Coughlin -
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
Gary Lucas -
People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
J. Smith-Cameron -
A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
Uday Kotak -
You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
Wangari Maathai
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
Patrick deWitt -
I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.
Douglas Conant -
To me, being a Democrat means we can't let 'We the People' turn into 'We the Few.'
Brad Schneider -
In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradition, rivers are seen as the glue, the highway, the linkage between people, not the separation. And that's the history of Canada: our rivers and lakes were our highways.
John Ralston Saul -
My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.
Nerlens Noel -
The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli