Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
