Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
-
Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
-
When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
-
I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
-
I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
-
I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
-
It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
-
We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
-
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
-
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
-
I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.
-
I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
-
I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
-
I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.
-
Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
-
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
-
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
-
I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
-
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
-
I watched my wild youth disappear in front of my eyes. Moments of magic and wonder, it seems so hard to find. Is it ever coming back again?
-
There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
-
I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.
-
I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.
-
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
