Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.

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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.
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I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.
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When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
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I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
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I don't need to beat Faber, because his ego will always beat him. He's got excuses for every loss he's ever had.
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I've been exploring what works for me, and what I enjoy. It's about diet for me as well as training.And so finding something you enjoy, making sure it works for you and sticking at it would be my advice.
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A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.