Albert Camus Quotes
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!Albert Camus
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
Beatrice Wood -
Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
Samantha Stosur -
You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
Nalo Hopkinson -
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
Salman Rushdie -
They say women and music should never be dated.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
Victor Hugo -
In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.
Candis Cayne -
The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.
Federica Mogherini -
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
Queen Victoria -
I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
Park Geun-hye
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I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
Nancy Reagan -
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
Lady Gregory -
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman -
All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
Barbara Broccoli -
While the final decision as to the use of my body remains with PETA, I make the following suggested directions:
Ingrid Newkirk -
All the rest of the world uses the word 'electricity.' They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!
Mao Zedong
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.
Enrique Pena Nieto -
My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.
Andres Serrano -
When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves.
Dylan Moran -
I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that.
Jonathan Brandis -
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!
Albert Camus