Victor Hugo Quotes
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
Quotes to Explore
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
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I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.
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As soon as I got into country music, it was like hook, line and sinker. I was so focused on country, I ended up leaving all those '80s hair-band CDs behind - which now I still wish I had, but I was done with it.
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
