Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
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You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won't filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it.
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Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.
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This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.
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You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
