Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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You can pay for school, but you can't buy class
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While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.
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So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
