Victor Hugo Quotes
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.
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If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.
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When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!
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I don't run behind authority.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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In one story, he describes a man who is blind in one eye, myopic in the other, too poor to buy eyeglasses, who wears only the frames, with no lenses. When asked why he replies: “It’s better than nothing.
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As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for the brotherhood of rowing. The brotherhood connects real rowing people. Teammates who haven't visited in years came together, and so do former opponents who once battled like mortal enemies. Suddenly they discovered they have much more in common. Long live the brotherhood of rowing.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
