Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
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I just want to have a nice, happy life.
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Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.
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One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.
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It's tough to sort of balance free time and schoolwork and work in general and family time and hanging out with friends, but it is manageable if you have a good support team behind you, which I do.
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
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He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.
