Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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I hate competition.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
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The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.
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The assertion that art may be good art and at the same time incomprehensible to a great number of people is extremely unjust, and its consequences are ruinous to art itself...it is the same as saying some kind of food is good but most people can't eat it.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.