Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
Damien Chazelle -
As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
Vincent Cassel -
I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
Zachary Levi -
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
Ranbir Kapoor -
Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.
Dan Hill -
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
H. G. Bissinger
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
LaToya Jackson -
Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
Yitzhak Navon -
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
Larry Flynt -
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
Naomi Klein
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley -
The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
Irwin Winkler -
With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
Abraham Maslow -
If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
Galveston Giant -
Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
Kary Mullis -
With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
Kate Bernheimer
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In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?
Jessica Biel -
I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.
Saint Augustine -
The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.
Alan Cranston -
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
Maya Angelou -
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli