Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I'm a tooth person... I like quirky teeth. My husband has little teeth with spaces in between them. He hates them and I love them. I like people with buckteeth, and I like it when they crinkle a bit. It's very charming.
Malin Akerman
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At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.
Abraham Flexner
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The Liberal party has been in power throughout this entire scandalous affair. And Mr. Martin, to my knowledge, has been a very senior Liberal.
Jack Layton
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The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
Weegee
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It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.
Anthony Daniels
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Why, one person in the world, one single person belonging to one, of one's very own, to talk to, to take care of, to love, to be interested in, was worth more than all the speeches on platforms and the compliments of chairmen in the world. It was also worth more—Rose couldn't help it, the thought would come—than all the prayers.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
Eliot Spitzer
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I'm used to it.
Gaston Gaudio
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So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.
Pythagoras
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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
