Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.
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Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
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'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.
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We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.
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Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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为什么外国互联网公司到中国大都失败了？谷歌也不行、雅虎也不行、eBay这些都被中国本土公司给搞死掉了？是不是中国不能做？任何一个失败的人是最容易找藉口的，人类总是为失败找藉口，不为成功找方向。
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We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about.
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'For a long time I used to think that anal sex was how lawyers were conceived.'
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim. That's why the world is in the shape that it's in.
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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
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All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.
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Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
