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 come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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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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I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it's worth it. My parents have a home in a little village of 12 houses. It's not on any map, so unless you know it's there, you won't find it. Nothing works there; no Internet, no cell phone, and the land line only works sometimes. It's great!
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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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Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.
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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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Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.
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I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
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I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.
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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.
