Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) in my left breast. I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.
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I usually eat a salad for lunch and before a game since it keeps me feeling healthy and energized on the field. I love piling on the toppings: the more colorful the better! I usually do nuts, fruit and avocado, but I also mix up my creations with different toppings and lettuces.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.
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I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
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My dad used to do it when we were little, and I tried it when we played around in the back yard. Eventually, I got a bat and a real ball and played around to see if I could hit left-handed.
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We have a dysfunctional immigration system, which does not permit us to know who we let into our country, and it does not permit us to protect our citizens properly. We have an incompetent administration.
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The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are at best standing still: so the gap between the industrialised countries and the rest is widening every day. On the world scale this is the gap between the rich and the poor.
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I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.
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In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
