Albert Camus Quotes
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.
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I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
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I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.
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Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
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BecauseHe is all-powerful, must all-good, too, follow?I judge but by the fruits-and they are bitter-Which I must feed on for a fault not mine.
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75: The computing field is always in need of new cliches: Banality sooths our nerves.
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Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
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That was the danger Samuel Butler jestingly prophesied in Erewhon, the danger that the human being might become a means whereby the machine perpetuated itself and extended its dominion.
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How was I supposed to know?She was slowly letting go?If I was puttin her through her hell,Hell I couldn't tell.She could've given me a sign,Could've opened up my eyes.How was I supposed to see?She never cried in front of me.
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When they N'Sync and Aerosmith played, it wasn't music. It was the sound of chaos. I knew it was the sound of chaos because you could hear pigs being slaughtered. Women were weeping and men were gnashing their teeth, and there were sounds so horrible that I cannot repeat them to you, or you would flee from this room in horror!
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If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
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The joy I get from work is just huge.
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I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
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The information is in the people, not in your head.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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The cold north wind which bows to earthThe lightness of the willow's birthBends not the mountain cedar trees;Folding their branches from the breeze,They stand as if they could defyThe utmost rage of storm and sky.
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It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies - with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples - should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
