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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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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I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.
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I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.
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I grew up in Kansas City from when I was about two years old to my mid-teens. Kansas City at the time was an amazing place, because there was so much music going on there. As a kid, I was playing there all the time and learning a lot about music.
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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.
