Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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I gather most people don't remember that when the U.S. Open first went to Pebble Beach in 1972, a big deal was made of the Open going to a public course for the first time.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.
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If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.
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You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.
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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.
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I'm not in the teenybopper bracket, and I'm not in the 30-plus bracket. The fan response has been really widespread, age-wise.
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Though lovers be lost, love shall not.
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I've always had these morals I've sort of put on myself: that excess is bad. I used to be into Buddhism and stuff. I was vegetarian. I was all about shutting things out.
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Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming of age be more blasé about them in a healthy way? You look back at the history of any medium and the people who were there when it was developing, whether it was the telegraph or cable television or radio, thought, This is amazing, it's going change everything, or, The human community will finally be able to recognize each other and speak and be one - I mean, some people thought the telegraph or television would usher in world peace.
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Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
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When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.
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Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
