Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
O. Henry -
What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
W. E. B. Du Bois -
The American dream is still to own your home.
Barry Sternlicht -
I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite -
I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
Tamsin Greig -
One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
Ramakrishna
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But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
Larry Wall -
Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
Nancy Cartwright -
Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.
Mary Douglas -
The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.
Mark Millar -
I went through quite a few establishments that maybe weren't great for myself - security units, youth-offender places. I guess that was going to the lions' den. Social services said, 'You've got to go to some sort of school.'
Archy Ivan Marshall -
Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
Jamie Wyeth
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Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.
John Hume -
Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'
Anna Chlumsky -
We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook.
Katie Holmes -
Ironically, it's easier to raise the money to make the film than it is to have the film find wide distribution.
Edward Zwick -
ABC Family is really restructuring their network because there's a new kind of family, so I think they're really trying to step away from that younger audience, and they're bringing a network that can bring more to an older demographic.
Matt Dallas -
I love helping people; just being of service makes me happy!
Cory Hardrict
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I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.
Lindsay Duncan -
I think we invite people into our living rooms every week through the television because we have emotional connections to them, or they make us laugh or reflect some part of ourselves that we want to live in.
Alex Kurtzman -
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
Epictetus -
Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas