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 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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'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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In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true.
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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
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I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
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When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.
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Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.
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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.
