Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
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I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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I started from B-grade films, and today I'm the number one actress of this country... whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched... they are still there and have not risen to another platform.
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Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.
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If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
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When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.
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We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.
