Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
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It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
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The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.
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The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
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I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.
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I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
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Nature is not human hearted.
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I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.
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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
