Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.
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I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
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I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.
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I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!
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10) Anarchy is the least stable of social structures.
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When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!
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That's why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.
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How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.
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We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
