Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

  

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• It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'

  

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• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

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• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

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• You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

  

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• Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

  

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• Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

  

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• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

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• Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?

  

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• Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

  

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• You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

  

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• I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

  

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• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

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• I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.

  

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• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

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• Eighty-five per cent of the time, people want to talk about 'True Romance.' That's the film I've made that really seems to have stuck with people.

  

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• To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.

  

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• In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • True
  • Judge
  • Fortune