Victor Hugo Quotes
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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A bowler can make or break a chap.
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In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.
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All I know is we're going into the All-Star beak on a positive note. But we haven't achieved anything. Nobody has done anything except gotten to the All-Star break.
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Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.
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Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Hope will break your heart all over again.
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Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.
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You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.
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Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.
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These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.
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Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.
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I'd send Christina Aguilera to Mars cos she'd scare all the aliens!
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It was very important for us to win after the game at Barcelona. A lot of things have been said and it was important to show we are Chelsea. We showed we are a good team.
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I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed an organizing technique. I've always characterized the difference in saying that they went in for mobilization. And, to be honest, in terms of the historical facts, their mobilization usually was predicated upon some effort at organizing by someone else. And, at this stage, it was largely SNCC.
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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
