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 think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.
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Without their tiger gods, the tribe declined into fear and melancholy and begged her to allow them to worship her instead, only to be rejected with contempt; for what good would their worship do her? she asked. It had done nothing for the tigers.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.
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I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love, something that brings you joy, it's about you having a duty to find time in your life for that thing that brings you joy...even if it can only be a small amount.
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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.
