Victor Hugo Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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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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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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The right to private property ownership is one of our core freedoms, ... Historically, eminent domain has been used mainly for well served public purposes such as highways or schools, but this decision sets a dangerous precedent for uprooting families simply to accommodate wealthy developers.
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Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
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It is not necessary to live, But to carve our names beyond that point, This is necessary.
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Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.
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I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.
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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
