Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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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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I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.
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Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?
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Mutt Lange is a slave driver, but he is a genius.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
