Albert Camus Quotes
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
Quotes to Explore
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
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I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
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When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
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If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.
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To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.
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I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.
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All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.
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In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
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Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.
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I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.
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Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.
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People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences. And so moviegoers are going for a different kind of drug than for a certain kind of literary quality.
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In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By contrast, in a hunt, shots vary in quality according to how well selected they may be.
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We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
