Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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You have to be yourself.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
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I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.
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But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
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The world is a force not a presence.
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Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.
