Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.
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I actually haven't run good at Atlanta in the past three trips. So is this going to rejuvenate it? I hope it is, and I feel confident it will.
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Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.
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The war in Iraq has fractured the political will of the United States and the world.
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Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
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War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.
