Victor Hugo Quotes
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.
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How does nature amplify the intelligence of groups? It forms swarms.
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Six years of your life is a long time to do anything, and especially in this business, where you get so used to being nomadic and moving on to different jobs.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
