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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I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.
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The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.
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It's always a blast playing the new stuff. But I feel like songs, in a way, are never finished. You get to a point where you're comfortable enough to put a stamp on it and send it out there, but even after recording it, when you're playing it live, you hear different harmonies, you hear different notes, you hear different tempos or peaks and valleys in the song.
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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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There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.
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A blast in the human breast is nothing to boast of.
