Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
Cameron Russell
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
Daniel Cudmore
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
Talia Balsam
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Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
Mara Liasson
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I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
G. Willow Wilson
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
Salma Hayek
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
Lajos Kossuth
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I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
Padgett Powell
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
Bear Grylls
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No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
Orrin Hatch
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London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.
Sade Adu
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You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice, I can't imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.
William Booth
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People will always be interested in relationships, infidelity and sex and everything connected to things in their own lives.
Eva Longoria
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
Gary Zukav
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
William S. Burroughs
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Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
