Albert Camus Quotes
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze 'packets' of data as they flew by.
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The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
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I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
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In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.
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Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
