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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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I recognize that every role I play, I'm not going to play someone that has a ministry or that is a Christian, and I don't think that's what God has called me to do. The gift and talent that He's given me as an actor, director, producer is to entertain, sometimes to inform, most times to inspire.
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Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones.
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At no moment do I know what I’m talking about, nor of whom, nor of where, nor how, nor why, but I could employ fifty wretches for this sinister operation and still be short of the fifty-first, to close the circuit, that I know, without knowing what it means.
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Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
