Camille (Camille Dalmais) Quotes
The world isn't awful. People aren't awful. They want to be good. Something makes them bad. Something breaks them down, makes them snap.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
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You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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Art thy not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it? Just as if the eye demanded recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking. For as these members are formed for a particular purpose... so also is man formed by nature to acts of benevolence.
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There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people's imaginations. And in death, they become even larger. Now, I have to admit that it's also fed by a 24/7 media that is insatiable.
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The world isn't awful. People aren't awful. They want to be good. Something makes them bad. Something breaks them down, makes them snap.
