Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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Fifth Harmony as a group represents more confidence, more girl power, more unity. They're anthems, as opposed to confessional songwriting about one person's life when there are five individual women.
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If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.
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I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
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It is not our policy to suppress success.
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I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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You can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself.
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It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.
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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
