Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
A prince need trouble little about conspiracies when the people are well disposed, but when they are hostile and hold him in hatred, then he must fear everything and everybody.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.
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I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.
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I would love to do another 'Jack Reacher' movie.
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Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.
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I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.
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A prince need trouble little about conspiracies when the people are well disposed, but when they are hostile and hold him in hatred, then he must fear everything and everybody.
