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For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.


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JUSTIN CAGE We're thinking about it too much. When it starts getting mental, that's when you miss shots. I don't...
JUSTIN CAGE We've been working hard the whole year just to get our name out there. But we're staying focused and...
JUSTIN CAGE I think so, because he's such an important coach and he's known everywhere. It's going to seem a lit...
JUSTIN CAGE The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT One must not hope to be more than one can be.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of tim...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who de...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselve...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who ha...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The ...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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