Albert Memmi Quotes

It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.

Albert Memmi

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• Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Good
  • You
  • Beat

• I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Health
  • Insurance

• I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • Very
  • Broke

• Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Today
  • Alone
  • Journey

• I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.

  

  Florence Green
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • God
  • Book

• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • You
  • Everything
  • Director

• GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Software

• But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Myself

• To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • May
  • Free

• What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Conflict
  • Inequality

• Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Intelligence
  • Tell

• Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Political
  • Retirement
  • Bear

• Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Doing

• I definitely was in the sequined, bedazzled era. We would put blue eye shadow up our eyebrows and glitter all over our faces. I probably put more effort into my skating outfits than my clothes.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Effort
  • Eye

• Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Fun
  • Hurt
  • Nobody

• I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Important
  • Thought
  • Cancer

• If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don’t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition claims that a moderate beer drinker - whatever that means - swallows 11 percent of his dietary protein needs, 12 percent of the carbohydrates, 9 percent of essential phosphorus, 7 percent of his riboflavin, and 5 percent of niacin. Should he go on to immoderate beer drinking, he becomes a walking vitamin pill.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Journal
  • Protein
  • Immoderate

• I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • People
  • Why
  • War

• The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Jesus
  • Heaven
  • Teacher

• I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene [in Kosovo]. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody [Clinton] is doing something.

  

  Mike Farrell
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Situation

• It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.

  

  Albert Memmi
  • Situation
  • Relationships
  • Escape