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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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 am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.
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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.
