Victor Hugo Quotes
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
Quotes to Explore
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.
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If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.
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There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
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Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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In so far as men believed that the traditional ceremonial was what God wanted of them, they would be indifferent to the reformation of social ethics. If the hydraulic force of religion could be turned toward conduct, there is nothing which it could not accomplish.
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
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Words are but empty thanks.
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I just never count on anything. You can't.
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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
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I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.
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I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.
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When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.
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Now, he was filled with a distaste for a civilization in which the individual was so prone and in which he must be so diligent just to preserve his sanity.
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In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
