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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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
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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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I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.
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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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I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!
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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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The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.
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I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice-and from that all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow. We've become more materialistic. For balance, I think we need to get back to idealism and patriotism, but also be realistic with our monetary goals.
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Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
