Victor Hugo Quotes
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.
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If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it.
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Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?" "Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me—" "I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times—" "Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand—
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
