Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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I like to give people more than their money's worth.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
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"I think you have to be ready to quit within yourself. If you're not, it doesn't matter what rehab you go to."
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A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.
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To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
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When all else fails, I am comforted by the fact that when I am ill or old, I will never be on my own. After all, you'd have to be a pretty terrible father if not one of your seven daughters was willing to take care of you at the end.
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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
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So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.
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To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.
