Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.
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It's been interesting for me because when I served in government before, I served in the White House. This time, I ended up serving in an agency, and it just made me respect and admire how much happens and that happens every day with people who don't even know all the work that's going on.
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I don't think anyone can get away from high school unscathed.
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A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.
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Success makes success, like money makes money.
