Victor Hugo Quotes
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.
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If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Some of the things I've done are really special.
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You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'
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I was never a writer.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
