Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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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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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.
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The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.
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I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.
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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
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When I first moved to Los Angeles, I had a really bad run. I would sleep in my car during the day outside the Disney building in Burbank, and that's where I got my first job, which is really weird. I liked to stay around the studios and kind of get the good vibes going.
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Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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El hombre, cuando es solamente lo que parece ser el hombre, casi no es nada.
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
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Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself.
