Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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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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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and life history, such as how long it is going to live, how many offspring it will have, the length of its aorta, how long it will take to mature, what is the pulse rate in the ninth branch of its circuitry.
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The law of all modern states takes account of associations, whose members, in theory, pursue the common end with equal zeal. The experience of all associations proves, however, that this is not the case, and that a lively, constant and vigorous awareness of the end is found only in a minority of the associates; an association is really rather like a comet—a large tail of docile followers dragged along by a small dynamic head.
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When you have a home and create a brand people believe in and want to support, it makes it easier for you to control merchandise and sell it.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
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A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.
