Francesco Guicciardini Quotes
To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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If someone is not tech savvy, I have no time for them. I've always been a big believer in looking forward.
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I'm always a fan of good business moves.
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The thing I tried to remember when I was younger was 'Do something that's at least as good, if not better, than the last thing you did.' So I started with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. I had a pretty high bar to start with.
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This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.
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To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.
