Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
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The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.
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A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
