Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
Eddie Marsan
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
Nathan Lane
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
Harlan Coben
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I bought a girl roses once.
Cameron Dallas
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
Tariq Ali
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. King
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
Dacre Montgomery
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
Carlene Carter
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
Paige VanZant
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
Magic Johnson
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
Patrick Macnee
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
Wendelin Van Draanen
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The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.
Larry Bishop
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
Babyface
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I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.
Ted Sarandos
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
Lajos Egri
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
Rakul Preet Singh
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman
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If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.
Walter Gropius
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I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
Ion Tiriac
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Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?
Karl Lagerfeld
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli