Victor Hugo Quotes
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.
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All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.
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A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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Batting coaches are just as important as pitching coaches. Lefty O'Doul gave me good advice when he said: 'Don't ever let them change you.' I also asked for help from Cobb, Foxx and Hornsby.
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The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, 'I saw the Lord,' &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details. ...Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent.
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Our whole culture in this country now is so conformist. I don't even meet that many freaks any more.
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If I weren't a Jew (in the sense in which I use the word) then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
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As a white teen, I was very drawn to hip-hop culture, almost to the point of disappearing in it - there was a sense of having no sense of authenticity except this one that wasn't mine.
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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
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When I did my research on this topic, I came to the startling conclusion that the Federal Reserve System does not need to be audited - it needs to be abolished.
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...organized labor...rushes to support the party without demanding a turn away from corporatism toward workers’ needs. This is the logic of the lesser of two evils. It tethers labor to a relentless slide deeper into the corporate power pits year after year.
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Mettre tout en équilibre, c'est bien; mettre tout en harmonie, c'est mieux.
