Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.
Ted Deutch -
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
A. N. Wilson -
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
Yvonne Strahovski -
For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
Rachel Cusk -
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Irwin Shaw
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
Zadie Smith -
There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
Laurel Clark -
If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
John Lancaster Spalding -
The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
Patsy Cline -
I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
Delloreese Patricia Early -
I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy.
Samuel Barnett
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He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.
Yana Toboso -
I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
Erykah Badu -
We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.
Elayne Boosler -
We thought the bomb was detonated by remote control, but now it appears to be a suicide attack.
Ayub Khan -
Can you, who have always been used to serenity and order in a family, to rational, refined, and improving conversation, relinquish them, and launch into the whirlpool of frivolity, where the correct taste and the delicate sensibility which you possess must constantly be wounded...
Hannah Webster Foster -
It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
Carlene Carter