Victor Hugo Quotes
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
Quotes to Explore
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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I'm a darned good listener.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
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Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
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I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.
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Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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Lawyer even sounds like liar.
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But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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Quod vult habet, qui cupere quod sat est potest.
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I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.
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The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask women if they would rather be men, they tell me no, and I get the same response when I ask people with unusual anatomies if they would take a magic pill to erase their unusual features.
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Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
