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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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
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It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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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.
