Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.
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It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
