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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The eye seems to be responding to something living.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.
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Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.
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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.
