Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio - on the treadmill or a spin class - then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!
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My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.
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When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.
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I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
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I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.
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My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
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I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.
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I was a sports kid.
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Every piece of geopolitical strife that's happening in the world today is revolved around energy, either trying to grab resources or people using resources to fund radical groups.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.
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When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.
