Victor Hugo Quotes
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
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Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
