Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
Rachel Griffiths -
I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
Viggo Mortensen -
I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
Rachel Kushner -
My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
Kapil Sibal -
I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
Yael Stone -
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
Ralph Bakshi -
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
Aaron Neville -
Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
Gavin Newsom -
I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
Ian Mckellen -
I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
Garry Hynes -
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.
Idina Menzel -
'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
Isaac Asimov -
Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
Ambrose Bierce -
Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
Alan Ball -
While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.
James Mattis
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When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition.
E. J. Hughes -
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
Lisa See -
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
Jesse Jackson -
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas