Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
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The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation.
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All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
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I have 20 restaurants. And if one doesn't work, it doesn't work.
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Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.
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I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me.
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In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.
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It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.
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Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
