Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
Zach Braff -
Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
Laura Carmichael -
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi -
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
Daniel Barenboim -
Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
A. Philip Randolph -
In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
Lance Henriksen
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Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
Samantha Power -
My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.
Aaron Diehl -
A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.
Navid Negahban -
I love men's wear.
Lara Stone -
As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
Daniel Craig
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Victor Hugo -
I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.
Rachel Kushner -
I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
Alan Cumming -
Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
Youssou N'Dour -
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
Cai Guo-Qiang
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If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.
Vincent Bugliosi -
If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
Lance Armstrong -
...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli