Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.
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The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone past Andy Warhol and all those clever, arty and witty things that were done and said in the sixties...the fifteen minutes, and so on. Now your celebrities don't have to do anything, they're just voted in. And that shocks me.
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Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
