Victor Hugo Quotes
In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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I grew up with horrible skin. I had cystic acne ever since I can remember. I ended up finally listening to those people who say you are what you eat.
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The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
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They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.
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You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.
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There's trials and tribulations in a band.
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I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to.
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There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.
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I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.
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I am normal. In fact, I think I might be more normal than anyone else.
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I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.
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Neil Mahoney was definitely the visionary in taking 'Freak Dance' from stage to screen. He made it more cinematic. He brought the choreography, all the ways to shoot that. I was more the director of actors. I was in front of the camera directing, and he was behind the camera directing.
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The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.
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I'm not a secretive guy. I'm talkative.
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An actor is only merchandise.
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I will become the greatest, because all travellers have to be able to adapt. That quality, adaptability, is essential to that way of life. Not many boxers have it but I can adapt before a fight to the opponent, during the fight if necessary.
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What I like to do when I get to a new place is buy local music early on and listen to it while we're driving around. I think it helps explain and illuminate the culture of where you are if local music is playing.
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Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home.
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An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
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I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.
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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
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Astronomy is a science in which you are not able to touch anything you study.
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I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.
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In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
