Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.
Victoria Justice
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
Samantha Barks
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Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
Kate Chopin
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
Malcolm Arnold
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Nadia Boulanger
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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
Tahj Mowry
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I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas' shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion.
Daniel Boulud
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Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your career. You might have to look for more than one passion. Some passions may afford a career and some may not.
Larry Smith
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The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.
Adam Clayton
U2
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Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions.
Ellen Key
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I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.
Donald Trump
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A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
Vance Havner
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Giving opens the way for receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions
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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas