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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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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Not just 'thanks'! These are fifty years of my work.
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I had a daily 30 minute pushup routine. Then I boxed 3 times a week for about an hour. And then, I had the trainer come to my house an average of 1 to 2 times a week.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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I love other movies that have been made since, but I think more than any comic book movie, 'Superman' just totally seemed to capture superheroes in ways that others have not.
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A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
