Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
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I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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Character development is conflict.
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People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.
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I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.
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I think having kids just makes you want to do things to help people. You have children, and you see how fragile and innocent and helpless they are when they first start out. If they are going to be a victim of whatever they are surrounded by, I just do everything I can to try to make whatever change I can.
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When you see 'Star Wars', and you see Greedo hustle up to Solo, you know they have a history; you understand that there's a dude named Jabba the Hutt who's after him, and Greedo is going to try to shoot him and get the money. You get what's going on there.
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I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.
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I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!
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There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.
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You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it.
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I get on very well with Denis Naughten, absolutely.
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You might as well acknowledge what came before, because you can never do something wholly new. It's not unoriginal to make your references clear.
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You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.
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When I wanna be a superhero I just wake up.
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It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
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Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
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Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? They’re nothing like ordinary shadows. Nothing at all. They come here from some other, distant world, especially for our hearts. Or maybe not. It struck me then that the tears my shadow was shedding might be the real thing, and the tears that I was shedding were just shadows. You don’t get it, I’m sure, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. When a naked seventeen-year-old girl is shedding tears in the moonlight, anything can happen. It’s true.
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All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.
