Victor Hugo Quotes
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
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I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.
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I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
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A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.
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If I'm an entrepreneur and I have an idea, and I don't have the development talent around me but I need to find a developer, I would do my selection just like I would with hiring an employee.
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Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
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In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn't build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.
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Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.
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In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.
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I don't like stepping on other people's toes, but with my size 15 shoes, people step on mine sometimes.
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The King walks. He nods. His glance is like God's touch - under it all things spring to life. A wave of his hand and a hundred musicians tear into the Handel, making a sound you've never heard before, and never will again. A sound that goes through you, through flesh and bone, and reorders the very beat of your heart.
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Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.
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The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.
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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
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But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
