Victor Hugo Quotes
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
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Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.
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It seemed awful that the only things she knew about him were those that made him miserable.
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Starting a new job can be nerve-racking , but it's also exciting. You're embarking on a new future, positioning yourself to write a fresh story on a clean slate.
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One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.
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The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country.
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Those who live are those who fight.
