Victor Hugo Quotes
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
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I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.
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Life tol'ably queer. You think you've got a grip on it, then you open your hands and you find there's nothing in them.
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I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them in that way. I mean, by the same token, you're out touring with a band and then you're writing string quartets, and in a funny way, isn't it all the same, in a way? It's all just music.
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The whole conversation of my work has to do with power and who has it.
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Wealth and power don’t go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
