Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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I sell Damascus steel, folded and intricate, dug up from the earth, practically useless, desirable only to lovers of the arcane, the beautiful, the old. No
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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'We should let love be uppermost in our hearts because all our doings without love are nothing.'
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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
