Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.
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There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.
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Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.
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I would say that the majority of the people I work with are Swedish, very unknown producers and writers but so talented.
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And who (in time) knows whither we may ventThe treasure of our tongue? To what strange shoresThis gain of our best glory shall be sentT' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?What worlds in the yet unformed OccidentMay come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.
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'Don’t be sentimental,' he chided. 'Memories aren’t enough.'It was fruitless to argue the niceties of that: he was telling her that he was in pain; he didn’t want platitudes or metaphysics.
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If I have a meeting or need to look more done up, the thing I can always do is a cat eye.
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I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.
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I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.
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You're speechless sometimes when you think of the support you've had from the first day I've started wrestling to now.
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That's what I loved about 'Community' - we had one of the most diverse casts on TV, but we didn't emphasize culture. And yet, we also didn't run away from it.
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I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.
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Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'
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I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.
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I'd rather die than go to heaven.
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The degree to which society creates wealth, I think, is largely determined by government and financial systems.
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I still pinch myself that I ended up in Hollywood. And I am still surprised at the fans.
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No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.
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Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
