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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Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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The whole 'serious artist' thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I've learned is that it's not very glamourous, and my problems are no different from anybody else's.
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I remember a concert for a visiting girls school, and that was the first time I ever sang - it was always about girls - that was the main thing. But somewhere along the line, it became a cathartic thing.
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I grew up with reggae. Reggae is like family. I know it, and there's a type of love and familiarity, but sometimes you want to hang out with other people.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
