Albert Camus Quotes
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
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There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
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I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.
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I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
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A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.
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Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, 'I quickly moved on to...the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really.' (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)
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If you want to buy my wares Follow me and climb the stairs … Love for sale.
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London has become one of the great world destinations for someone who likes food.
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I remember having a conversation with my sister, saying, 'What if I don't make it? What if I'm still waiting tables when I'm 35?' I was just at the end of my rope. But I've been at the end of that rope several times.
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You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.
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'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she'd seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country - all around the world - who show that type of fortitude.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
