Victor Hugo Quotes
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
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I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
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Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
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It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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Veterans have stood up for us.
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I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.
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I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
