Victor Hugo Quotes
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.
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'How can you read such a beautiful book and turn your back on it?''Never said it wasn’t a beautiful book. I just don’t believe there’s some man up there in the black who gets off on watching us pound our head on the pavement six times a day.
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We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
