Albert Camus Quotes
When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid; it can't last long.' But though the war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.
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Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
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My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.
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The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
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My job is to cover the hell out of the story, very aggressively. The real place to be courageous if you're a news organization is where you put your people to cover the story. It's making sure that you have people going to Baghdad. It's making sure that you figure out how to cover the war in Afghanistan. While the journalist in me completely stands with them, the editor of the New York Times in me thinks my job is to figure out what the hell happened and cover the hell out of it, and that's more important than some symbolic drawing on the front page.
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When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid; it can't last long.' But though the war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
