Victor Hugo Quotes
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I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
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A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!
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To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
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A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.
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I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.
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People like our stuff, some people hate it, but that's like anything, right? Some people love donuts, some people are allergic to 'em.
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You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.
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Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
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It's really weird watching the government watch me.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
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Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.
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As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
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America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or to deliver on their promises. This country could become America the beautiful, but it never will. It's in the hands of the wrong people. And the public is so apathetic. Those who are not apathetic are dispirited, discouraged, and disheartened. Those who will sometimes feel a twitch of inspiration that would lead them to do something, they, based on their conditioning, will start to total up all the reasons why they can't succeed.
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There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
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Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
