Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

  

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• I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

  

  Jacob Artist
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• I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

  

  Walter Hill
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• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
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• My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.

  

  Randall Park
  • Hope
  • Door
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• I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

  

  Quinn Shephard
  • Like
  • Design
  • Clothing

• My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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• The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Freedom
  • Loss
  • Presence

• Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • People
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• Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Why

• But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Nature

• There aint but one truth, said John Grady. The truth is what happened. It aint what come out of somebody's mouth.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Truth

• If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Formula
  • Torn
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• I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Up
  • Powerful
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• I like the triangle. My first season, the whole first season, we played nothing but the triangle, so I know it pretty well.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
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• Usually, I'll be auditioning for the third lead, and there will be Latina actresses, Indian actresses, African American actresses because it will be like, 'Let's check off this box. We have our lead white girl, and we need an ethnic slot.'

  

  Constance Wu
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• There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren't famous. There weren't a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of 'em.

  

  Andie MacDowell
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• Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well balanced as well as carefully patroled.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Beautiful
  • Community
  • Environment

• Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Dog
  • Same
  • Nobody

• Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Art
  • Energy

• Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Dog
  • Conscience
  • Passing