Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
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Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.
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It’s like my greatest accomplishment in life so far, and I haven’t committed myself to anything for as long as I’ve committed myself to music, to the band and you know we’ve been through so many trials and tribulations and yet that didn’t break it, you know?
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
