Victor Hugo Quotes
Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
Quotes to Explore
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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Money has never been my drive. I have never seen the shortage of money in my life, so for me, I don't want to buy a silk pillow or a private jet... My drive is to achieve more than what my grandfather achieved; my drive is to make a name for myself, get rid of this 'star son' tag that has been attached to me.
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What sought they thus afar?Bright jewels of the mine,The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?They sought a faith's pure shrine.
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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a lot more stories to be told than slavery.
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One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.
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I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.
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Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
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I thought as the game progressed our intensity was pretty consistent. We made a lot of mistakes, but we kept after it. Our kids needed a game (after the holidays) and we're ready to go.
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We expected that we would start seeing more significant declines in new cases and deaths around the nation at this point. And we're just not seeing that.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
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I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass.
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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
