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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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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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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My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, 'intellectuals gone bad,' a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.
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My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.
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Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
