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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.


Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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NICOLAS MADURO I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid pl...
NICOLAS CAGE Similar questions were posed to Allende as to me. Allende was told that he blamed everything on a co...
NICOLAS MADURO I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had ...
NICOLAS CAGE Let's dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a ...
NICOLAS MADURO How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not...
NICOLAS CAGE Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a livi...
NICOLAS MADURO If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligenc...
NICOLAS CAGE Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like...
NICOLAS CAGE I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I st...
NICOLAS CAGE And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft o...
NICOLAS ROEG You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a hug...
NICOLAS ROEG I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and h...
NICOLAS ROEG I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't ...
NICOLAS ROEG The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scar...
NICOLAS CAGE I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood ...
NICOLAS CAGE I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches...
NICOLAS MADURO I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we re...
NICOLAS MADURO The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribut...
NICOLAS MADURO I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria ...
NICOLAS CAGE Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I ...
NICOLAS CAGE I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez...
NICOLAS MADURO You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE The United States are ruled by a financial, media-centered, military-industrial apparatus. Behind Ob...
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