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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The purest natural food for human beings would be fresh, uncooked food and nuts. A fare which consists of three-quarters of vegetable food and one-quarter meat would appear to be the most satisfactory.
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Like most Southerners, I visit battlefields. Southerners will visit almost any battlefield anywhere, but we are especially fond of the Civil War scenes because we know who fought where and how they did their fighting.
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Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?
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The problem is the fake products today are of better quality and better price than the real names ... They are exactly the same factories, exactly the same raw materials but they do not use the names.
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What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.
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Mettre tout en équilibre, c'est bien; mettre tout en harmonie, c'est mieux.
