Albert Camus Quotes
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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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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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
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Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
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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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It isn't always on the front pages, but the horrifying mistreatment and subjugation of women around the globe is very much worthy of more attention.
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I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
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An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
