Francesco Guicciardini Quotes
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.
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I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, 'Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.' And I was like, 'Really?' I think she was from Malaysia.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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I never thought I would go into the dance charts.
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I always root for the defense.
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People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.
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The word is not the thing.
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The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity, and humanity, let the blackguard Paine say what he will; it is resignation to God, it is goodness itself to man.
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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
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I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.
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I try to give positive energy in all my shows.
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Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
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I remember taking my brother's car out, pushing it down the driveway in neutral in the night, and going out joyriding with friends and getting flat tires and getting busted. My license was revoked by my dad. So, definitely, I was a kid. I was a teenage boy.
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The first time I was paparazzi'd, I thought I was being investigated for an insurance claim.
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My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.
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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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Con disavvantaggio grande si fa la guerra con chi non ha che perdere.
