Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St. Tropez SPF on my face every morning, no matter the weather, before I go out of the house.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I hate birthdays.
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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My dad wouldn't buy me tight pants. I had to get my own money to buy them.
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I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
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If then all things that grow, nay, our own bodies, are thus bound up with the whole, is not this still truer of our souls? And if our souls are bound up and in contact with God, as being very parts and fragments plucked from Himself, shall He not feel every movement of theirs as though it were His own, and belonging to His own nature? (36).
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Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
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The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: ‘Who shall be in charge of telling the story.’
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Artists can do whatever they want!
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
