Albert Camus Quotes
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
Rachel Boston -
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
Edmund White -
My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
Mara Wilson -
I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
Malaika Arora Khan -
I'm very lucky.
Damian Lewis -
It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.
Yohan Blake
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I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary.
Saint Basil -
People - I hate to use the word 'fans' - are very respectful. It's not like I'm some pop idol or big movie star. I'm very approachable, and I love the people who enjoy me, because they react like they've run into a friend. Usually, it's like, 'Hey, Wanda! How ya' doing?'
Wanda Sykes -
Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
Yasser Arafat -
I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
Taylor Swift -
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
V. S. Naipaul
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The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
Warren Farrell -
Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
Jerry West -
I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.
Amelie Nothomb -
Plastic surgery can't make you younger or more beautiful, because beauty is in your eyes, isn't it? It's in your soul; you can't strap it on.
Sarah Parish -
I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
Mary MacLane -
We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
Albert Camus