Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
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The best approach to risk is to identify and manage it.
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One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
