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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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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You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.
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So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
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Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.
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I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
