Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
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I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.
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Begin with another's to end with your own.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.
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The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
