Francesco Guicciardini Quotes
Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
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I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.
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We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
