Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
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Since I'm a vegetarian, I try to focus on getting my protein and iron needs met.
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I'm not that interested in people.
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If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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If I want to kiss, I shall kiss. If I am told that a lovemaking scene is integral to the script, I will consider it.
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The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought the fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.
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The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.
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The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.
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The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.
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Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
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Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.
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We are not entering into politics to acquire power.
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We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
