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 and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
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Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.
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I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.
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A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions.
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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
