Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.
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“I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary”
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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I'd much rather speak up and stand behind something I believe in than worry about pissing off a couple hundred people. And if they're more pissed off than if I never said anything, well, sorry but not sorry.
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At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.
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WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
