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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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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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 always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.
