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.
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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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Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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Stop trying to impress some art-school teacher with a stick up his butt whose opinions you never respected from the time you entered his class until you left it 10 years ago. Draw like you. (p. 27)
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Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.
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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.
