Victor Hugo Quotes
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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I have always focused on the bottom line.
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It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.
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The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
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A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
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The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
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This is our bottom line, and the will of 1.25 billion Chinese people.
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I would love to have my own lingerie line.
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My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
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Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.
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The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
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No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.
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As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
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The government currently has unfunded liabilities surpassing $66 trillion.57 That’s $66 trillion in expected entitlement payouts over the coming decades for which there is no known revenue source.58 If nothing is done to scale back the entitlement state, then, according to a report by nonpartisan financial analyst Mary Meeker, “By 2025, entitlements plus net interest payments will absorb all—yes, all—of” government revenues.59
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Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.
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The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
