Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
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Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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'The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'' 4
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What greater challenge today.. ..to disorder and insensitivity; what greater propaganda for integration than this emotionally intense, dramatic division of space? quote in 1943, discussing the art of Piet Mondrian
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Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.
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I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
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I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.
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Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.
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You are a creator. You create with your every thought...anything you can imagine is yours to be, do or have.
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In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.
