Victor Hugo Quotes

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

Victor Hugo

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• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

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• No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.

  

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• There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.

  

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• My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

  

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• People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

  

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• I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.

  

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• As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.

  

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• In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

  

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• No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.

  

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• I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

  

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• I don't feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.

  

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• Wer den Daumen auf dem Beutel hat, der hat die Macht.

  

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• The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ... to subjugate other nations, who learn their arts, and ultimately adopt their manners;- so that in reality the origin as well as the progress and improvement of civil society is founded in mechanical and chemical inventions.

  

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• I want to make the most out of the word 'fame.' I want to do good things with my fame, or whatever it is. I want to help and do charity work.

  

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• The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

  

  Bill Gates
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• In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
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  • Poverty

• The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Poverty
  • Charity
  • Priest