Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
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On my best day, I am a seven-point-seven. I could be a hard eight if I felt great. If I went on a good run and had on my best pair of jeans, I could feel right on the money.
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My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.
