Francesco Guicciardini Quotes
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Quotes to Explore
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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I've been so lucky to have done two spacewalks. If you looked at your wristwatch, I was outside about 15 hours, which is about 10 times around the world. And, you know, there's a whole time dilation, distortion thing.
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You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.
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On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
