Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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Oh my God, I would love to go on stage so much. I'm undignified with how badly I want it.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.
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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
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Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.
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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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I actually wasn't much of a book reader at all before the 'Twilight' series. They just draw you in, and people love them. They're terrific books.
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There is only one 'retirement plan' for terrorists.
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I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.
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I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.
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Let us come together before we're annihilated.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.
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For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
