Victor Hugo Quotes

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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• I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

  

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• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

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• Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.

  

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• The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

  

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• In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

  

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• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

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• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  

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• Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

  

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• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

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• It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

  

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• If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

  

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• Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.

  

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• Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

  

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• Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.

  

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• English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

  

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• Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

  

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• I think young writers ought to be heretical.

  

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• To have grazed every form of failure, including success.

  

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• What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'

  

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• A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Torture
  • Museums