Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!
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I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.
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I try and maintain a little bit of fitness, man.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
