Albert Memmi Quotes
Now, I want to remember all this. My life has known days of innocence when I had only to close my eyes in order not to see.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
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'I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.''You mean never again?''Well, not so much. They don't let you.'
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I was at the job of reading it for days and days, endlessly daunted and halted by its laborious dullness, its flatulent fatuity, its almost fabulous inconsequentiality. (On H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter) Ch. 2, 'The Late Mr. Wells'
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.
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So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and give me a fresh approach on things.
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One hundred eighty years later, we know that the eyes of the world are fixed upon us. And we must ask ourselves: what kind of an example of freedom do we give to our age? What are the true marks of our America-and what do they mean to the world?
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I go on Wikipedia and alter pages of animals with fake facts that I've made up about those animals.
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Now, I want to remember all this. My life has known days of innocence when I had only to close my eyes in order not to see.
