Victor Hugo Quotes
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
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I'd never discuss anything confidential.
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I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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To love the carnal self means to love the body-mind. I cannot abuse my body with alcohol, stress, and self-indulgence and still claim to love my self.
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I’m just saying that right now we could all use a degree of perspective. Because this is not the end of the world.
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In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.
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Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.
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I have the courage of my convictions.
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Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.
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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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I first met Jim Valvano in the 1980s when he was a frequent guest on our CNN 'Coaches Corner' show based in Atlanta, as he was always in the area recruiting the next North Carolina State basketball phenom.
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As a songwriter, I listen to everything to be inspired... from Rihanna to Bruno Mars to Springsteen to Johnny Cash.
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Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.
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I have had close relationships with three species of wild pigs, each a chance encounter on a different continent, and all continue to enrich my life in surprising ways.
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Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
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There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.
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I have taken to living by my wits.
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In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.
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Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.
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I love mysteries on television – the more psychologically complex the better.
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O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
