Albert Camus Quotes
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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I get more tired by travelling than anything.
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I know all the critics.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started.
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I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I'm a heart-on-the-sleeves kind of person.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.
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Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).
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When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
