Victor Hugo Quotes

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

Victor Hugo

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• Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• I'm down for adventure and up for anything.

  

  Zach Anner
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• When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

  

  Edouard Manet
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• Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

  

  Dan Ariely
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• Growing up in Canada, I used to love a walk in the early morning, when the streets are quiet and the sun was shining. Walking in the morning is still very refreshing... and if I can, I will walk to my first meeting or appointment.

  

  Imran Amed
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• The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

  

  Idries Shah
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• I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
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• I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.

  

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• The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

  

  Albert Venn Dicey
  • Law
  • English

• Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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• There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

  

  Saint Augustine

• For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
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• We can't look at them. We've got to go out there and do it ourselves. We're foolish if we're trying to look at the referees.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
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• A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.

  

  Francis Chan
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• There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.

  

  Michael Leunig
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• I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

  

  Keanu Reeves
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• My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

  

  Jacob Dalton
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• The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Needs
  • Bread
  • Ideal