Nicolas Cage quote: "I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that."

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers an...
NICOLAS CAGE

I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdate...
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Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner ...
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I don't like it when people on the street say smile or cheer up. It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling...
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I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it fester...
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I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than...
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I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I c...
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Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an a...
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I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'How...
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I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid pl...
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I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had ...
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How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not...
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If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligenc...
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Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like...
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I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I st...
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The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scar...
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I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood ...
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I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria ...
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Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I ...
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One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually re...
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I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.
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I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk r...
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As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
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When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little hom...
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The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn...
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's ...
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Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other...
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I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.
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There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
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I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place.
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I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got int...
NICOLAS CAGE

Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters.
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I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at in...
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To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to str...
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We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor...
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I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptile...
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I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
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I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm fee...
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It's really important that I'm able to convey the way he thinks, the way he justifies what he does t...
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The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but t...
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I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my...
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Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.
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I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had t...
NICOLAS CAGE

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.
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I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I en...
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I came out of independent film, that's my roots.
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I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.
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I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.
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I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a...
NICOLAS CAGE

It's genetically inside me somewhere.
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Alcatraz is an unsafe place to actually make a movie in many ways because there are cliffs and rotti...
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There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One ...
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The Weather Man
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I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen...
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I wish I had learned more about it in high school, but they didn't put it in the history books, ... ...
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I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen...
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feel like real time unfolding. It's going to smack of reality and feel as real as it can ... The bui...
NICOLAS CAGE

I just liked Tom's demeanor -- I liked his energy,
NICOLAS CAGE

[Question 2: Does he turn to the sports page first? He doesn't.] The word 'sports' has always given ...
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At the time I agreed to do 'The Weather Man,' I was going through a divorce and I was trying to figu...
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I think no matter what walk of life we're in or who we are, we all have that connection with our fat...
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It is satire, but it remains in the realm of the real, as opposed to something like 'Dr. Strangelove...
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Lord of War
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I really want people to know that despite the title, and despite the fact that weaponry plays a majo...
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The idea that kids younger than mine are fighting guerilla wars using guns sold for profit is just m...
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[An actor has to let things] bubble up when you're doing a lot of the acting and telling a lot of th...
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I always knew she was great, ... but this was the first time I got to see her in the work background...
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Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it c...
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There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
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I get stimulated by creative people, and by meeting talented people. I like putting things together,...
NICOLAS CAGE

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said...
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Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.
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I don't like it when people on the street say ''smile'' or ''cheer up.'' It's a real cheap line. I'm...
NICOLAS CAGE

Don't lose the best thing in your life just because you are not sure.
NICOLAS CAGE

As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the ...
NICOLAS CAGE

Hopefully as a result of 'The Frozen Ground,' more and more people will be aware of the horr...
NICOLAS CAGE

Well, you want to stay at my apartment?
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With my goal to make a family drama and also my artistic aspirations of doing things which are a bit...
NICOLAS CAGE

It's not something you really read about or see on TV — who's subsidizing these gun sales to oppre...
NICOLAS CAGE

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.
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Yeah, that's a true story,
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As a father, that's what disturbs me most,
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Well, it's very simple and it may sound strange, but I am Ghost Rider. It wasn't that challenging .....
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Classes were always a bore to me. I wanted to learn things on my own, not by presentations.I was a l...
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It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwa...
NICOLAS CAGE

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it...
NICOLAS CAGE

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.
NICOLAS CAGE

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I...
NICOLAS CAGE

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.
NICOLAS CAGE

The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the mate...
NICOLAS CAGE

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.
NICOLAS CAGE

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong...
NICOLAS CAGE

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup...
NICOLAS CAGE

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.
NICOLAS CAGE

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't fin...
NICOLAS CAGE

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that...
NICOLAS CAGE

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.
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Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.
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When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry th...
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Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they...
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I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind ...
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Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?
NICOLAS CAGE

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same...
NICOLAS CAGE

Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have tha...
NICOLAS CAGE

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power obje...
NICOLAS CAGE

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?
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For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in...
NICOLAS CAGE

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
NICOLAS CAGE

Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's wit...
NICOLAS CAGE

My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going ...
NICOLAS CAGE

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.
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Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because ...
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I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You t...
NICOLAS CAGE

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cag...
NICOLAS CAGE

It's not something you really read about or see on TV who's subsidizing these gun sales to oppres...
NICOLAS CAGE

Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
JOHN CAGE

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
JOHN CAGE

If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do.
JOHN CAGE

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of pois...
JOHN CAGE

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's n...
JOHN CAGE

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
JOHN CAGE

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse ...
JOHN CAGE

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to o...
JOHN CAGE

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen...
JOHN CAGE

It didn't end the way I wanted it to end but I have no regrets. Like Rod said, man, it's been a long...
CALVIN CAGE

I've been waiting to get back at them. We should have finished them in regulation but for whatever r...
CALVIN CAGE

A couple of weeks ago, I had a bad taste in my mouth. I was really upset because I thought we gave t...
CALVIN CAGE

It is what it is. Coach is trying to give us rest during practice, but it's a new season and if you'...
CALVIN CAGE

This is a game that we have to have more than from a revenge standpoint or that we lost to them in t...
CALVIN CAGE

It's a great feeling. It's a big win and we needed this win because it's a home game and this puts u...
CALVIN CAGE

I was yelling for somebody to get out there. I just saw 'Rio taking off full speed.
CALVIN CAGE

If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try ...
JOHN CAGE

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.
JOHN CAGE

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
JOHN CAGE

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, somethi...
JOHN CAGE

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
JOHN CAGE

The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as u...
JOHN CAGE

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
JOHN CAGE

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poi...
JOHN CAGE

Music is a means of Rapid Transportation
JOHN CAGE

If someone says 'can't,' that shows you what to do
JOHN CAGE

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation
JOHN CAGE

I have nothing to say And I am saying it And that is poetry
JOHN CAGE

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of pois...
JOHN CAGE

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest on...
JOHN CAGE

Dad's oil dehydrator was a contained electrostatic field, one electrode down the center, the other t...
JOHN CAGE

Technological errors made by government, industry [DDT, ABM, SST, CIA, etc.] are those of children, ...
JOHN CAGE

We had a tough season -- we had a lot of ups and downs -- but at the end, it was memorable for us.
JUSTIN CAGE

Everyone is in the best seat
JOHN CAGE

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to o...
JOHN CAGE

When we separate music from life we get art.
JOHN CAGE

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
JOHN CAGE

There was no quality, no sound integrity. It was good for broadcasting political rallies or football...
BUDDY CAGE

I have never not enjoyed playing. I want to go on. If you are into this stuff for the money, you are...
BUDDY CAGE

We discovered the music was timeless.
BUDDY CAGE

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
JOHN CAGE

All season the coaches have been stressing these things. I feel it's our responsibility as players t...
DAN CAGE

We had a lot of guys make some big plays.
DAN CAGE

It's about time. You can't win close games like that on the road unless you have four and five and s...
DAN CAGE

I don't have to worry about this, but when Shan gets up, he has to question whether he's going to du...
DAN CAGE

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it...
JOHN CAGE

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
JOHN CAGE

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner...
JOHN CAGE

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
JOHN CAGE

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
JOHN CAGE

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
JOHN CAGE

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.
JOHN CAGE

It was a big change. It's a whole lot more open now. Brian averaged 16 points for us, and losing tha...
JUSTIN CAGE

He's a lot bigger, so he can get in there for the rebound. B.J. is not going to back off anybody. Hi...
JUSTIN CAGE

With him being on the floor, he's a lot bigger, a guy that can get in there and rebound. B.J.'s ... ...
JUSTIN CAGE

Him being here today really showed us he still cares. He's our team captain. ... He's such a big par...
JUSTIN CAGE

It's a funny feeling without him being there. He sits in the same spot every day, and he's not there...
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.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT

I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that.

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