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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People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.
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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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They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
