Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
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The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.
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We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.
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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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Fashion is so mass-produced now; I hope there will come a refocus on how people see couture. And I would also hope for a new focus on the craft.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.
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One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.
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Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.
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I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.
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Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.
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Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.
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Are we not still guilty, if to a less violent degree, of recklessness, of improvidence with regard to our future and our humanity? War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
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I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to do with seeking attention, though. My relationship with my siblings when I was growing up was close and playful.
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Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
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The future is to heal back to the mind again. Recognizing that the mind is all powerful - it controls every cell to every degree of its genetic expression.
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All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
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In America, we want a peaceful planet. We want people to be able to enjoy their lives and know they're going to have a bright and prosperous future, not be at war. That's our purpose.
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The acting training in school was great, but it was mostly fun being young and in New York. Because my upbringing was so transient, New York ended up being my home. I've been living in New York longer than I have anywhere else in my life.
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To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.
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...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.
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It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
