Victor Hugo Quotes
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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A 2014 study commissioned by Facebook and done by Deloitte suggests that Facebook alone contributes almost $150 billion directly to the global economy, and when you add the peripherals, it nears $227 billion.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
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I like to study failure, actually. My partner says, 'I want to know where I'll die so I'll never go there.' We want to see what has caused businesses to go bad. The biggest thing that kills them is complacency. ... The danger would always be that you rest on your laurels.
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Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.
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'The Paris Review' was always the pinnacle: it was the place to be published. You were thrilled if you were published in 'The Paris Review,' and George Plimpton himself was practically mythical. He was a legendary figure.
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I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I’m not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for attention is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.
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It's not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.
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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
