Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
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Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
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Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
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I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
