Albert Camus Quotes
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
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I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.
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The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.
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Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.
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I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.
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Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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This is the thing that I was born to do.
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On parle peu quand la vanité ne fait pas parler.
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When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.
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It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.
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For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.
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Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.
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To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
