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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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 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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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
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When I perform as a solo, I think a lot about what I always wanted to do but have not done yet.
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Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.
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I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.
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When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.
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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.
