Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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I definitely have family on the brain.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.
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I'm really grateful to my fans - to all the people who support me.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.
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I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.
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It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
