Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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He's just a good kid. I didn't understand half the things he was telling me, but it was fun.
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By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.
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There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.
