Victor Hugo Quotes
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
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As a source of objective morality, the Bible is one of the worst books we have. It might be the very worst, in fact-if we didn't also happen to have the Qur'an.
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It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine. If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake. But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that’s not very cool. It’s not just selfish, it’s kinda sick and unhealthy.
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I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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I remember once doing a benefit for a Jewish charity and wearing an enormous cross. I kind of don't let the audience dictate anything to me. I sort of dictate to them, and they better be on board.
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I am not one of those who thinks that Congress needs to be in session 24 hours a day interfering in peoples' lives.
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I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.
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I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
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I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.
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Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
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So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.
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Algebra applies to the clouds.
