Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
Ike Barinholtz
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
Sam Graves
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
Edgar Bergen
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
Adam DeVine
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
Utada Hikaru
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
J. G. Ballard
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
J. B. Priestley
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I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
Kara Lindsay
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I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
Rain
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
Zeljko Ivanek
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
Edgardo Osorio
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I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.
Larry Hogan
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O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me.
From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me.
My state of love has been expressed to you, now my secret is no longer concealed.
Busiri
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Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
Marianne Williamson
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
Om Puri
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A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
