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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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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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.
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The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and 'it depends' is almost always the right answer in any big question.
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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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.
