Victor Hugo Quotes
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When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
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In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
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I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
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Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living
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External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
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I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my mind or heart, as if to match or correspond with the expression.
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When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.
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It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."
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We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.
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I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.
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I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.
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Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.
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You can understand so much about how consumers perceive a brand by analyzing their spontaneous, subconscious responses.
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It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.
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The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
