Victor Hugo Quotes
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
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I don't watch TV.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
