Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.
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I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.
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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards
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Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
