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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This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.
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With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
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My father was a veteran. He fought in World War II. He was a patriot. On the other hand, he had no illusions whatsoever about how Uncle Sam had mistreated him and other black soldiers.
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
