Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
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They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.
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Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.
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Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.
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I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
