Victor Hugo Quotes
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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There is more to life than show business.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can't do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.
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I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
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I've never been very comfortable as an actor looking out into the audience; I always like to keep my focus on the other person. When you start playing out to the audience, it takes me out of it, because people don't do that when you're in life behaving with another person - you don't often look out, around you, in a presentational manner.
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me
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I think that the love of the really happy husband and wife—not purged of passion, but with passion heated to a white heat of intensity and purity and tenderness and consideration, and with many another feeling added thereto—is the loftiest and most ennobling influence that comes into the life of any man or woman, even loftier and more ennobling than the wise and tender love for children.
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For me, digital is just another avenue. It doesn't mean that it has to be poor quality or poor content. But, you still run into the same struggles. You can't have full-on language, violence or sexual situations. You can't run rampant with the fact that it's digital. You can't do anything you want. You still have a responsibility to tell a story first, and show what the character is going through first, and then maybe you have a little bit of lee-way to show a more real side of life.
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
