Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
Jack Kemp -
I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
Edmund Hillary -
Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
Nathan Myhrvold -
We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
Fay Weldon -
I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
B. F. Skinner -
It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
Kara Swisher
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
Frances McDormand -
Successful entrepreneurship takes complete dedication and careful strategizing along with market analysis. Plus, successful startups provide countless benefits to a healthy economy and consumers in need.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
Gavin Newsom -
When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
Fionnula Flanagan -
It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.
Zhou Yongkang -
I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.
Laura Dern
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The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
Vin Diesel -
What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.
Jack Vance -
The night is beautiful, So are the faces of my people.
Langston Hughes -
There were few who thought him a starter,Many who thought themselves smarter.But he ended PM,CH and OM,an Earl and a Knight of the Garter.
Clement Attlee -
In not more than a month’s time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be ready for our enemies... that remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head.
Leon Trotsky -
When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.
David Gergen
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To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
James Dean -
I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.
Kanye West -
The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of nature by experiment and observation. But there was another feature of the new science-a dependence on numbers, on real numbers of actual experience.
I. Bernard Cohen -
Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.
Yahya Jammeh -
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas