Victor Hugo Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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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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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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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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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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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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I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
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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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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.
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I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
