Albert Camus Quotes
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.Albert Camus
Quotes to Explore
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
Jack Hanna -
One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor -
I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
Garrett Clayton -
I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
Edan Lepucki -
I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
Laura Wade -
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey -
If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
Yanis Varoufakis -
Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.
Walker Percy -
Obviously, when you break a school record it means a lot. She is amazingly talented. She is doing things that typically takes two or three people to do.
Jack Warner -
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.
Flannery O'Connor
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American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
Vincente Minnelli -
Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.
Epictetus -
Today a lot of things are so celebrity-oriented; it's only because it's celebrity and the photograph is lost. To me it's important to have an image that is a photograph first, not about necessarily who that person is.
Herb Ritts -
The woodcut is the most graphic of the printmaking techniques. Its practice demands much technical ability and interest. Kirchner's technical skill made woodcutting easy for him. Thus he came in a spontaneous way through the simplification necessary here to a clear style of representation. We see in his woodcuts, which constantly accompanied his creative work, the formal language of the paintings prefigured.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -
It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.
Mick Ralphs -
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.
Albert Camus