Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
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Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
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I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.
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Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
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If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.
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I'd be more than delighted to go find energy in Club Med. But we've tried and did not find it.
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I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night - it's hard to read Heidegger, but it's especially hard if you're half asleep.
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The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!
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I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave.
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A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
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I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.
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If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
