Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
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We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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In fifty words: Granted mobility, security (in the form of denying targets to the enemy), time, and doctrine (the idea to convert every subject to friendliness), victory will rest with the insurgents, for the algebraical factors are in the end decisive, and against them perfections of means and spirit struggle quite in vain.
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Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.
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It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.
