Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
Adam Green
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I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.
Ted Deutch
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
J. Paul Getty
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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
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
Talulah Riley
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
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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
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
Fiona Shaw
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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
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
R. T. Rybak
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I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
Omar Sharif
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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
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
Venus Williams
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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
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If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
John Lancaster Spalding
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The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
Patsy Cline
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If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
Julia Roberts
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The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.
David M. Raup
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
D. H. Lawrence
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
