Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
Sam Altman -
Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
Imogen Heap -
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos -
The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
Wayne Dyer -
Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
Rafael Nadal -
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
Federica Montseny
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
Frances Wright -
There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
A. K. Antony -
Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
Bart Stupak -
If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
W. C. Fields -
In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
Viggo Mortensen -
I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
Victoria Justice
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
L'Wren Scott -
Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
Malcolm Turnbull -
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda -
I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
Mara Brock Akil
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
Ernest Hemingway -
Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you are scared, look into your partner's eyes. You will feel better.
Amy Poehler -
Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.
Cedric Price -
I tend to latch on to things and not let go.
Damien Chazelle -
There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli