Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.
Gabrielle Reece -
When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
Ian Anthony Dale -
I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
Mandy Moore -
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
T. E. Lawrence -
I never got into politics for it to be a career.
J. C. Watts
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
Basmah bint Saud -
Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
Malaika Arora Khan -
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
Daisaku Ikeda -
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
Zadie Smith -
I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
Sam Rockwell -
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
Lana Del Rey
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
Carla Bley -
We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
Jack Nance -
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
Rachel McAdams -
This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.
Barack Obama -
O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
Fernando Pessoa
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Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Is it named after Michael Jordan?
Sacha Baron Cohen -
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.
Jean Hanff Korelitz -
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas