Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
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I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.
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I like to travel by myself.
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A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.
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Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
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Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
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August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do is you sit with our pathology, you invest in our humanity. We're not walking around like walking symbols like we mean something larger. We're just moving throughout our lives and that's the power of the piece. That's revolutionary.
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One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
