Victor Hugo Quotes
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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I know I have a hit show on my hands.
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Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.
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I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.
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I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. … When it was fashionable to say, 'May the Force be with you,' I always said, 'Force yourself.' … I'll say again then, 'The Force is within you. Force yourself.'
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We Americans choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.
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Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.
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Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.
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As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.
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Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.
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At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.
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During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.
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It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There's no room for courtesy or chivalry here.
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There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible.
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Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
