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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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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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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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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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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I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.
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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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A man bringing himself, melody and mathematics into perfect and enviable proportions. / only more so, much more so.
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He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.
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The Bible is different because it is the Word of God, by which He speaks to me. Disagreeing with the Bible would be disagreeing with God. So when I read the Bible I want to place myself ‘under’ it. I want to receive the Scripture in such a way that over time, my thinking, feeling, choosing, believing and behaving will be molded by the Word God is speaking into my life. I don’t want to critique the Scriptures; I want them to critique me and change me.
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Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
