Albert Camus Quotes
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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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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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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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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I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.
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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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To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
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I'm so used to knowing what to do with an electric guitar and amplifier, but with an acoustic guitar, it's different, but I still have an amp and a whole bunch of pedals.
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For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there's somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don't know he has a refrigerator full of penises.
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When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now
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I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.
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Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.
