Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
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I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
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Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
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In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.
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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
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A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.
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I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
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The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.
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A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it
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You love me?” … “Yes. More than life.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
