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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. … The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
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The obsession that you have to manage everything - it's really bad.
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The sets were incredible. You would walk in at 6 in the morning, and we were really living in 'Blade Runner.'
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If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
