Albert Camus Quotes
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.Albert Camus
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
Dakota Fanning -
It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
Aaron Koblin -
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian -
No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
Tadao Ando -
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo -
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson -
Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
Fatos Nano -
When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
Kabir Bedi -
The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.
Kate O'Mara -
I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
Valentina Tereshkova
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Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.
Narciso Rodriguez -
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Jack Welch -
It's not that I don't feel bad about it. It's just that I don't feel worse today than what I felt yesterday.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
Hans Frank -
I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.
Lennox Lewis -
The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.. .I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
Marcel Duchamp
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Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'
Jim Bankoff -
I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.
Mark Helprin -
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne -
When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
Olga Kurylenko -
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus