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Victor Hugo Quotes

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: french
Birth: February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885

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Man Bad More Poet Being Bad Man

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

Inevitable Never Something Influenced

Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.

Jeremy Grantham

Today People World Think Weird High

Growing up, I was quite self-conscious about getting too tall, but then I realized, 'You know what? I can use it to my advantage. Big is beautiful.'

Beautiful Growing Up You I Can Know

'Mean Girls' is awesome.

As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities.

Positive Change Responsibility Grow

I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.

Kindness Good Random World Think

If I had had plastic surgery, I would have asked for something better than the face you are seeing! I actually really hate plastic surgery when it's just for aesthetics and anti-ageing. I think ageing is beautiful and expressive and characterful.

Beautiful Hate Face Think Better

One of the most fascinating projects I worked on right after 'Officer' was 'Sadat,' a role for which Anwar Sadat's widow, Jehan, personally chose me. Although this TV miniseries won me nominations for the Golden Globe and an Emmy, strangely, it was boycotted in the Middle East.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Me Golden Right Role Middle Globe

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

Joshua Chamberlain

Life College Me Wish Back Say

The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.

Douglas Brinkley

Money New Answer Obvious Willpower

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

Life Yourself Easy You Hard Make

I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.

Good Myself Advertising Saying Years

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