Victor Hugo Quotes
A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
Quotes to Explore
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Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
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I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
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I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
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I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
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I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
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I do not fear grassy tracks. Whether there is grass or not on the wicket, I am not worried.
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Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.
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This is an exciting thing for us. One of the biggest things here is we want to keep our coaching staff. It's very important to us. Gregg was willing to extend his contract.
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The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.
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But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.
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Imagination is a sort of faint perception.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
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The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes the elections don't fully reflect the views of the American population.
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I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
