Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
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Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
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I'm not a Republican, but I was one once - when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I'm a Hindu - I was confused.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Bridge in London, buzzing with actors such as Patrick McGee and Peter Bowles. We were a family who were always on the go.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.
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I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
