Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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Funny is an attitude.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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I have no ill will about anything.
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
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One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.
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I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.
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I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.
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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
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Some people don't have a way of that catharsis and I do, so I'm lucky in that sense that people listen to my songs and enjoy my songs. It's a really important thing for me, it's how I channel everything. I don't really know what I'd do if I didn't write songs.
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The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.
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Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
