Albert Camus Quotes
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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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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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in principle, to build societies in which everyone flourishes. But it also creates great dangers because it is not clear that we really understand how to use our potentially devastating powers.
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I'm the gypsy man. I don't really live anywhere. I've got a roof over my head in Los Angeles, and I've got a lot of friends everywhere.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.
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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
