Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.
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The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.
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No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It's not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.
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Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome.
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I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
