Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn't really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He's a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.
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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.
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I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
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Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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Personally, I would tend to disagree and say anybody that you take off the streets of the city and you're going to put those people in a confined and secluded area with other people that have been arrested for crimes, they should be strip-searched for the safety of the people that's there.
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It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.
