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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My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
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I'm just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it's cooked, I'm going to serve that meal that everybody's been waiting for.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.
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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.
