Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'
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I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.
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I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
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I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
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Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.
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Democracy will win - because a government’s legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more control over their lives, not less; and because, more than any other form of government ever devised, only democracy, rooted in the sanctity of the individual, can deliver real progress.
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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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I don't think that at the time, or now, come to think of it, I gave a damn. Foolishly, I wanted truth and idealism, but there was none to be had.
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
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They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
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I think it was Osama bin Laden’s idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq.
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I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.
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All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
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I thought we moved the ball really well in that stretch. We just got everyone involved, and it's tough to guard when you do that with our offense.
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It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
