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.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
Walt Mossberg
-
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.
J. D. Vance
-
This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
Zhang Yimou
-
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.
Zac Efron
-
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.
Tamer Hassan
-
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
Orson Scott Card
-
The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
Larry Holmes
-
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.
Felicity Jones
-
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
-
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.
Dan Ariely
-
I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
Laura Anne Gilman
-
If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.
Ted Yoho
-
I'd be more than delighted to go find energy in Club Med. But we've tried and did not find it.
Christophe de Margerie
-
I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.
Patricia McBride
-
I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.
Dakota Goyo
-
To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
Nate Silver
-
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
Carol Burnett
-
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
