Victor Hugo Quotes
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
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Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
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A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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It's a real pleasure to earn the trust of your customers slowly over time by doing what's right.
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'Alarm' was about a boy that cheated on me, and when I found out, I wondered if I should give him another chance. I used to give a lot of chances to people hoping they would become better people, but this one didn't.
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
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That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
