Albert Camus Quotes
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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I've got so many big gains to make in the javelin and the shot put. I know I'm not going to be winning the field in those events, but I need to do myself justice.
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I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.
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I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
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Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
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I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
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She forced me to become avant-garde and take my clothes off, when all I wanted was to be Tom Jones.
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Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.
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I … thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.
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Celebrities say the darnedest things.
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The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.
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But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
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I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know.
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The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.
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It's important for the team not to be relying on one player.
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Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
