Victor Hugo Quotes
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
Quotes to Explore
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
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If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.
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When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.
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Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.
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Here's Your Sign: Live! (2004)
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Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
