Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.
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I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.
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Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
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Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.
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I know how it's gonna be when I die. It's going to be no noise, you ain't going to hear people screaming. I'mma fade out.
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There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
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As long as the rent's getting paid, you don't think about getting out of the game.
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I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.
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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
