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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Energy prices are soaring all around us, ... If this situation continues, every American family across the country is going to feel the impact this winter and next summer. No one is going to be immune.
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All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
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Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.
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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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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
