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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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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A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
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We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
