Victor Hugo Quotes
My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.
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God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.
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I quite like being who I am.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I always believe in buying things locally; anything locally made is a big plus, along with organic materials. I try really hard to do that, and brands really pop out to me if I know they're trying to be environmentally friendly.
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Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themeselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
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Wine has class. I love wine. The drier, the better. But beer? I just can't do it.
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In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
