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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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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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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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas.
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What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.
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Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract and so modern about a bank making a technical mistake about how it funded its obligations to depositors, and suddenly you're out of work.
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The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.
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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.
