Victor Hugo Quotes
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Everything is real on me.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
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I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.
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You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up.
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All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
