Victor Hugo Quotes
It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.
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The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
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What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
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When a person is haughty, he distances himself from other people and thereby deprives himself of one of life’s biggest pleasures-open, joyful communication with everyone.
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My hope is that 'Blk Girl Soldier' is a freedom song for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions of daily life in our city/country/world.
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The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.
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I think I would fan over Beyonce or Adele. Those are my two girl idols, definitely.
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What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.
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The obliteration of the evil hath been practised by two means, some kind of redemption or expiation of that which is past, and an inception or account de novo for the time to come. But this part seemeth sacred and religious, and justly; for all good moral philosophy (as was said) is but a handmaid to religion.
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If love or non – violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
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I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.
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I spent a night of watchfulness unto prayer, like Jacob, wrestling the whole night for the Lord's blessing, and towards morning the light of His countenance did very graciously arise upon me. My trust and confidence are renewed in Him, blessed and praised be His adorable name!
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A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.
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It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
