Albert Camus Quotes
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.Albert Camus
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
Wendell Willkie -
There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
Randeep Hooda -
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
Jack Kevorkian -
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
Felix Dennis -
When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
Tate Donovan -
I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
T. Boone Pickens
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Man Ray -
People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
Damien Hirst -
I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
R. Kelly -
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint Augustine -
The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
Yoko Ono -
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
Salman Rushdie -
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
Barbara Walters -
When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
Rahm Emanuel -
My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
Patrick deWitt -
A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
M. John Harrison
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I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark.
August Macke -
Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
Ice T -
By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
Osman Rashid -
You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.
Bill Mollison -
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
Albert Camus