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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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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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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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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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 am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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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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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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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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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
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The Democratic policy is any abortion, any time, for any reason at any point in a woman's pregnancy, right up until the last minute, to be paid by taxpayers. Barbara Boxer described this policy as, 'It's not a life until it leaves the hospital.'
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It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
