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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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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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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You can't build a society without law.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
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Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.
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I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
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I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
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I love the stars. Because they can't say anything. I love the stars. Because they do not judge anyone.
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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
