Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

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• I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Blessed

• When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Last

• Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Enjoy
  • Flattery
  • Gum

• Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Real
  • Enjoy
  • Hunger

• I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Up
  • Food
  • Respect

• I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Enjoy
  • Actor
  • Living

• Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Trust

• To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Enjoy
  • Say
  • Agree

• You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Success
  • Perfection
  • Esteem

• There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Present
  • Confidence
  • Enjoy

• They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Life
  • Enough
  • Enjoy

• I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn't really enjoy that very much. It was kind of too strict. So when I was probably 11 or 12, I started playing guitar and just kind of taught myself.

  

  Washed Out
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Guitar

• I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Eater

• Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Remember
  • Enjoy
  • Swimming

• I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Enjoy
  • Role

• If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Enjoy
  • Rose
  • Fragrance

• God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • God
  • Real
  • Death

• Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Think
  • Storytelling
  • Cosmic

• Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Pain
  • Dope
  • Cocaine

• My father was more than apprehensive. He didn't think I stood a chance in hell. He had no confidence in me whatsoever and was convinced that I was going to be coming to him for money when I was 40. We argued about it constantly.

  

  George Michael
  • Money
  • Confidence
  • My Father

• Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Enjoy
  • Known
  • Esteem