Victor Hugo Quotes
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I will run against anybody.
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
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I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.
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Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
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People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.
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Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
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Because if you didn’t speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.
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History has its truth; and so has legend hers.
