Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.
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I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.
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People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.
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Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
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To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.
