Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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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.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
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As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.
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I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me.
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Sometimes I become attached to a character because I've gotten to explore him for so long, like in the case of Ben, but sometimes I fall in love with a throwaway character who exists for only one scene in a video game like The Drunken Villager in 'Diablo III' or Sandal in 'Dragon Age.'
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Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.
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Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.
