Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.
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It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!
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My kids are blissfully unaware of anything I do. I asked my four-year-old, Harrison, what I did, and he said, 'You're an electrician.' He must have seen me changing a lightbulb.
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God is holding you in His heart, right at this very moment. It's a fact that can make you feel so small yet so big at the same time.
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Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.
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Colors are things we experience.
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We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.
