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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We were descended from royalty.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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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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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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I hate birthdays.
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I see so many bands, that are trying really hard to write for a person that they've never met. I get the idea behind it and the idea of helping people, but I feel you help people more by exposing yourself.
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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
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Out of the bliss comes magic, wonderment and creativity.
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I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I'm talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It's just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that's brought me closer to Him.
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Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.
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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.
