Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
Abigail Washburn -
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
Dan Brown -
I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
Adam Carolla -
When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
Mandy Moore -
Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
Victor LaValle -
When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
Tammy Duckworth
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
Candice Patton -
You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
Victoria Moran -
You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.
Ed Balls -
I cannot tell how the truth may be;I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Walter Scott -
On his bold visage middle ageHad slightly pressed its signet sage,Yet had not quenched the open truthAnd fiery vehemence of youth;Forward and frolic glee was there,The will to do, the soul to dare,The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,Of hasty love or headlong ire.
Walter Scott -
Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum,quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.
Lucretius
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What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?
Albert Einstein -
Kevin Durant would be welcome back in Oklahoma any time he's willing to come, and I want to be the first one he calls. He took care of the victims of our tornadoes. He took care of families. Took care of little kids. So, he has a heart, and he's not a bad ballplayer.
Jim Inhofe -
I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet.
Rita Ora -
My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
Bill Goldberg -
When people didn't really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.
Anjelah Johnson -
I've been thinking, in an age of Trump where you don't know the direction of the country, the person you need most is a steady conservative hand like Mark Kirk in the Senate to be advising the president, especially on national security topics ... which is my particular expertise after 23 years in the Navy.
Mark Kirk
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I started growing my hair out when I was, like, 22, 23. I just stopped cutting it.
Jonathan Van Ness -
Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.
Pythagoras -
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.
Jane Haddam -
Satire is the disease of art.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas