Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.
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On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, Bush's assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.
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How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies? The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.
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Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.
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The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
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I have learned that music comes in all shapes and sizes.
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He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.
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I want people to hear really exciting music played by the best, but in a context where they can clap when they want to, chase their toddlers, drink beer, take photos, get lost in the music and generally be themselves. And because a field has no rules, it's the perfect place to create unlikely combinations of musical genres.
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I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.
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Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.
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Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
