Albert Camus Quotes
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents.
Quotes to Explore
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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We're a nation of immigrants.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart.
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In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
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I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.
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You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
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It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.
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When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not find its full or complete satisfaction in the conventional or superficial, and deceitful world, in which or where everyone is mainly or mostly trying to assert oneself in front of others, to appear, and hoping to find in society relationships some advantages for his interest and vanity.
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Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents.
