Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
Frances Farmer -
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
Candace Bushnell -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
We are in favor of greater free markets.
Ed Gillespie -
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
Natalie Massenet
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
Landon Donovan -
I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
Paige VanZant -
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
Jack Black -
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
Faith Hill -
If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
Gary Locke -
When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
Kate Adie
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
Caio Fonseca -
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Dale Carnegie -
My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
Jack Nicklaus -
I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.
Najib Mikati -
I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time.
Hillary Clinton -
To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.
Ben Dolnick
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
Nancy Grace -
... I feel the American public would be in a better position to exercise freedom of dietary choice if it were stated in bold print on the Goals and Food Selection pages that the value of dietary change remains controversial and that science cannot at this time insure that an altered diet will provide improved protection from certain killer diseases such as heart disease and cancer.
Charles H. Percy -
The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas