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 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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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
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A book is a machine to think with.
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Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.
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Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.
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I have worked in 60 countries, covered wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and spent much of 2014 living inside West Africa's Ebola zone, a place gripped by fear and death.
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It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.
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It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
