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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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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People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.
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If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.
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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.
