Francesco Guicciardini Quotes
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
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Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
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Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
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A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter. You can make transistors out of them in the same way you can with silicon. At Berkeley, we made the narrowest device anybody had ever made. It was basically a single molecule.
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Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
