Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'
Salman Rushdie
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
Vidal Sassoon
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
P. J. Harvey
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
Mako
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
Zygmunt Bauman
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A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
Viktor E. Frankl
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
Rafael Vinoly
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
Beatrice Dalle
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
Haley Joel Osment
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
Pankaj Mishra
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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
Rachel Corrie
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On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, Bush's assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.
Fareed Zakaria
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I am glad that he thanks God for anything.
Samuel Johnson
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The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then you are going to be surprised.-1985
Nancy Pelosi
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Damn everyone to Hell. And damn the bloody forest. And God, too, for that matter.He looked up fearfully from his chill handful of water, but his silent blasphemy went unpunished.
Tad Williams
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Bless our Mountain Greenery home!In a mountain greeneryWhere God paints the sceneryJust two crazy people together
Lorenz Hart
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What are we Democrats fighting for? We are not fighting for salvation and going to heaven. But we are fighting for Medicaid, Medicare, health care, education, jobs, helping old folks.
Charles B. Rangel
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I like more of the club mentality, where we're playing, and if we feel like we want to play a cover, we'll switch to that.
Chris Stapleton
