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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An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
Alec Guinness -
I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
Zoe Cassavetes -
What's important to me is love, especially that. What's important to me is growing and evolving. But ultimately, what's important to me is being real and being authentic. I've spent enough time in my life holding poses, playing roles.
Ann Wilson Heart -
I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
Nancy Lublin -
When I was three, I didn't play with other kids very much; I was kind of isolated. I got used to be being bullied and having to think my way out of situations in the same way that other kids would fight their way out. Then I discovered a piano, and it became my playmate.
Buffy Sainte-Marie -
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