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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He recalled Dr. Sarvis' favorite apothegm: When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.
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If Donald Trump wants to harm cities and the people who call them home, he'll have to come through me.
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There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
