Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.
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I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
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The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.
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Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu.
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Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
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A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.
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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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We often think the only way to create happiness is to try to control the outer circumstances of our lives, to try to fix what seems wrong or to get rid of everything that bothers us. But the real problem lies in our reaction to those circumstances. What we have to change is the mind and the way it experiences reality.
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The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.
