Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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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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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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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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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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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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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.
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Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.
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Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
