Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.
Victor Pinchuk
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
Barney Frank
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
La India
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It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.
Naya Rivera
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People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
H. R. McMaster
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I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.
Palmer Luckey
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Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
Nadia Comaneci
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I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.
Warren G
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I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.
T. C. Boyle
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No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.
Francine Pascal
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You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
Sam Mendes
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As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!'
Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra
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Jail is cold. It's very, very cold… I just wanted to not freeze to death and stuff, you know? It was pretty scary and I gained like 60 pounds. Three hots and a cot, man.
Wes Scantlin
Puddle of Mudd
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As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.
Tom Lehrer
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.
Vaclav Havel
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Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
