Victor Hugo Quotes
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.
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'Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.'
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TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
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The only club that could lure me away from Dortmund is Real Madrid.
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Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.
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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
