Francesco Guicciardini Quotes
Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
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...our progenitors, the kings of England, have before these times been lords of the English sea on every side...and it would very much grieve us if in this kind of defence our royal honour should be lost.
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Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.
