Albert Camus Quotes
Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I get up early. I like to read a little before anyone but the dog is up. I also like to read at night, not in bed but just before I go to bed.
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The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.
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Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.
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Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
