Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
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At college, I wasn't passionate about anything I was studying.
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Real success is not being on the cover of a magazine; it's knowing that you've done, and enjoyed doing, what you set out to do.
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War is an abstraction.
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Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
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The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.
