Victor Hugo Quotes
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.
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'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
