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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President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.
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Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.
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Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.
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I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.
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If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.
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In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
