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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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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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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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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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
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From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
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Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.
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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas.
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I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am alive, and that over a lifetime this adds up to more living, more aliveness. I am more alive than the rest of my family. Which is my greatest night fear. Which is why I hunt. I don't ever want to be more alive than they are.
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God, I love daydreaming out plane windows.
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Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
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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.
