Albert Camus Quotes
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.
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People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.
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I think crafting a new, effective horror movie is not just about when night falls and things get scary. It's about setting a tone and mood that permeates throughout the entire movie. So even during the daytime, things are never quite safe-feeling.
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I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.
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Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?'
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Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.
