Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
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In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.
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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
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It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.
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'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've been parted by jealousy - and a secret betrayal by Istvan's sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.
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Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.
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If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
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Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.
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By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.
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Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
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My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
