Victor Hugo Quotes

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

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• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

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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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• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  

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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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• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

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• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  

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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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• Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

  

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• True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and has made himself poor, so far as depends upon himself; but the fruit and the proof of this spiritual poverty are, patiently to endure the loss of worldly goods, and without any regret, when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.

  

  John Calvin
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• Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

  

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Poverty
  • Charity
  • Priest