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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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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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
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Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.
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As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.
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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
