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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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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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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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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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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It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.
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I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.
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The character we've always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who's actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She's an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved. That's a universal experience that everyone's felt at some point in their lives.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer, that we played on set all day to relax everyone. I decided to do the same thing for Catherine and William. The contrast of the contemporary informal music playing in the beautiful rooms with so much history caused a lot of laughter.
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It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.
