Victor Hugo Quotes
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.
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Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
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When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, 'Of course you are.' And I'm like 'No,' not, 'Of course I am.' In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime: everybody there is like, 'I was on this reality show; I'm an actor.' It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.
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We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.
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Reality in strong doses frightens.