Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
Orison Swett Marden -
No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
Paris Hilton -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung -
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.
Francesca Lia Block -
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.
Vanessa Paradis -
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.
J. William Fulbright
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
Ted Shackelford -
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.
Laura Mennell -
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.
Gary Lineker -
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?
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
Barbara Sukowa -
When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
Wanda Sykes
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The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
Gary Herbert -
A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
Lance Morrow -
Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
Ian Hacking -
Descobri que a leitura é uma forma servil de sonhar. Se tenho de sonhar, porque não sonhar os meus próprios sonhos?
Fernando Pessoa -
You know, you can tell the difference between a terrorist and a toddler. On a terrorist, the diaper is gonna be on the head, all right? That's how you can tell the difference. very loud applause It's upsetting. Unbelievable. They got absolutely nothing in common except both diapers are full of crap.
Larry the Cable Guy -
To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.
Valerie Solanas
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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
Oscar Wilde -
Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III -
It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.
Kristen Stewart -
Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.
Zac Efron -
Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.
Charles de Gaulle -
Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas