Albert Camus Quotes
For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
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It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.
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I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.
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To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was 'system,' an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was 'industry,' indecision when right was 'caution,' and blind stubbornness when wrong, 'determination.'
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I'm not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn't me - I bought a Harley-Davidson and dumped it.
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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.
