Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.
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These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.
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Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.
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Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it's all about trying to incorporate. It's about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it's about giving value to those people so they continue to sponsor me.
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You can't screw the rich, something in Ronnie muttered as Miss Quick got off him with quite as much alacrity as she had got on him. You have to let them screw you. Or else you leave out screwing altogether.
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We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.
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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
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I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
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Sylvia Plath wasn't scared of exploring the darker side of her psyche.
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I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away.
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It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.
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People seem to be interested in me. So I try to keep my acting pretty simple.
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I always have Giorgio Armani's Luminous Silk Foundation, Bobbi Brown's Jenna lipstick, and my Estee Lauder Double Wear Concealer.
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Everything on this earth can be made into something better. Every defeat may be made the foundation of a future victory. Every lost war may be the cause of a later resurgence. Every visitation of distress can give a new impetus to human energy. And out of every oppression those forces can develop which bring about a new rebirth.
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A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.
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When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing.
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White people, who for a long time live alone with Natives, get into the habit of saying what they mean, because they have no reason or opportunity for dissimulation, and when they meet again their conversation keeps the Native tone.
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A blast in the human breast is nothing to boast of.
