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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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
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3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing their movie another five or six percent and they don't know really how to do it, they should care how to do it better by bringing other directors and collaborators into their lives to help teach and instruct how you really make a 3D movie because it's not just like putting a new lens on a camera and forgetting it. It takes a lot of very careful consideration. It will change your approach to where you put the cameras. So, 3D isn't for everybody.
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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.
