Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.
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I write in a small office at home.
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.
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I'm very pessimistic. And I don't see him back. The closer we get to June 1, you know, I don't think he'll be with us. I'll be watching someone else for the Titans. That's not what we intended, but it looks like that's the way it's going to be.
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I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
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The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?
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They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.
