Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.
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As long as Hamas needs the support it could conceivably get from the international community through the Palestinian Authority, it has an interest in playing nice with Fatah. And Fatah has an interest in playing nice with Hamas because it needs some source of legitimacy on the West Bank.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.
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I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
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If you look at the Constitution, the two clauses of the Constitution make it very clear the president shall nominate, and the Senate shall provide advice and consent. It's been since 1888 that a Senate of a different party than the president in the White House confirmed a Supreme Court nominee.
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The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
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I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a visual artist. I think we have a lot in common. And my first film had a very tight structure, narratively.
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If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?
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My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work.
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Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
