Albert Camus Quotes
On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
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I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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I wouldn't want to be President now!
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I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.
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Happiness isn't a state, it's a skill. It's the skill of knowing how to take what life throws your way and make the most of it.
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Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."
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Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.
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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
