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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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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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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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.
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Liberalism was failing. If I'd been German and not a Jew, I could see I might have become a Nazi, a German nationalist. I could see how they'd become passionate about saving the nation. It was a time when you didn't believe there was a future unless the world was fundamentally transformed.
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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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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.
