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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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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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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It's weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I've done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live there. It's very, very strange for me. That's where my daughter was born, at UCSF. I have this huge attachment to San Francisco. It's like a love affair.
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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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Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.
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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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I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it. I believe Paul's got everything he ever had, but I lost a lot of mine.
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I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.
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The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
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In newspaper-land a dull lie is seldom detected, but an interesting exaggeration drives an unimaginative rival to hysterical denunciations.
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Football, at the end of the day, is a little kids' game that grown men get to play. I'm just privileged to get to do that every day.
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In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
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It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
