Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.
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I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.
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The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.
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I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
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When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.
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I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world.
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People have not given children enough credit to understand the idea of death. But I really think they do.
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For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
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I love Oreos.
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We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.
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Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
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Last came Anarchy: he rode On a white horse, splashed with blood; He was pale even to the lips, Like Death in the Apocalypse.
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Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote a lot of stuff for Phil Spector... we had done all rock and roll and rhythm and blues. I mean, we liked ballads and I suppose we did them OK, but that wasn't where we were emotionally and musically coming from.
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A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.
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Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
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To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.
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Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.
