Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I remember, when I heard Jeff Buckley's 'Grace,' on first listen I just thought it was such a great song.
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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
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I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.
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The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.
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It's really hard to grow with another person.
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
