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'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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The next series of 'Mr Selfridge' has moved on five years. It's 1914 now, and the war is brewing. Halfway through the series, some of the Selfridges staff have to go off to fight, so they get women in to do the men's jobs.
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I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well.
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I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.
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Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.
