Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I love 'Glee.'
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The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.
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When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, he said. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound - this is what I had to go through.
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A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)
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His thoughts were blown and scattered like leaves;He thought of the pail . . . Why, then, was it forgotten?Because he would not need it?
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I'm well-educated person. I don't reurn the gift
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I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.
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I believe Islam is superior. And will not be surpassed. So I believe that the law of God is much superior to man-made law.
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'Cloverfield' and 'REC' are great examples of movies that took kind of tired genres, the monster movie and the zombie film, and by filming them in found footage, it was a new perspective. It gives you a whole new take and helps you re-experience that all over again.
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Figure out the one solution - not three - that you want to see happen. There were quite a few things we could have gone after but we decided to focus on the commanders and that was a strategic decision because that, for us, would be the most vulnerable point and the most effective one that could immediately change.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
