Albert Camus Quotes
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
Albert Camus
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
Kate Winslet
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
Park Geun-hye
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
Imelda Staunton
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
Sam Rockwell
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
Adam Davidson
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I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.
T. B. Joshua
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
Kate Williams
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Exercising with a trainer makes my quality of life go through the roof.
Nadia Giosia
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Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. … But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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She had married a vulgar man; and, though she had not become like the man, she had become vulgar.
Anthony Trollope
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’Twas on a sunny summer dayI trod a mighty city’s street,And when I started on my wayMy heart was full of fancies sweet;But soon, as nothing could be seen,But countenances sharp and keen,Nought heard or seen around but toldOf something bought or something sold,And none that seemed to think or careThat any save himself was there.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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I had some personal problems, and I started listening to a lot of radio ministers. I listened every Sunday all day, flipping the dial up and back. So, I heard just about every guy on Sunday. And then I heard Mr. Armstrong, and I said, 'Ah, God has finally shown me the one, I guess.'
Bobby Fischer
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As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.
Melina Kanakaredes
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This is the moment — this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That’s what our job is. It’s not about impressing people. It’s not about getting the next job. It’s about contributing something.
Benjamin Zander
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People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to be the ambassador of everything. I learned this from Elena Poniatowska - intelligent woman, great lady, one of my heroes, one of my spiritual mentors, I love her. Someone is in this big museum and they ask her, "Elenita, what do you think about Mexican women . . ." And she says, "I haven't a clue!"
Sandra Cisneros
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
Ramez Naam
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The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
Albert Camus
