Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
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When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
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Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
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I believe that people should be able to question things.
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People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.
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I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
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We hang in there with some pretty good basketball teams. (But) there is no substitute for experience. Young teams don't win against good teams.
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.
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Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.
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France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.
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... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
