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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You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.
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Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.
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We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
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There's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.
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People often ask me why don't you have a girlfriend. Then I smile and say: I have thousands some just haven't met me yet.
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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
