Francesco Guicciardini Quotes
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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It's easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
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'Fast Food Nation' isn't about my journey into the dark world of fast food and the prison book is not about my journey into the prison world. I'm not using myself as any kind of narrative link.
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Mentorship plays such an important role in business - we know it's a must - and I believe schools should embrace it in a much fuller way.
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That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
