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 really would like to work with kids if I was not a model.
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If a voter initiative can deny gay people access to traditional representative, democratic processes, then in California, any other small, historically disadvantaged minority group can also be denied the right of representative.
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I think twerking is overrated.
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Even though at 17 it was limited, I had a life before Batman.
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This is just another example of Microsoft sticking it to the little guy and not protecting their customers. Microsoft has proven yet again that the security of a company's network should not be left in their hands as they are slow to react to such vulnerabilities.
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He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.
