Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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Let us have peace.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.
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I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.
