Albert Camus Quotes

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

Albert Camus

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• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

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• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

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• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  

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• All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

  

  Rachel Bilson
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• I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

  

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• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

  

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• My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

  

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• After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.

  

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• I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.

  

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• People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

  

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• I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

  

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• I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.

  

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• When you are in an unpleasant environment that makes you feel uncomfortable, one of the key ways to improve that situation is through design. That's why I think it is so important to help develop and showcase young designers, as they are our future.

  

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• We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.

  

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• Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.

  

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• Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

  

  Karl Marx
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• It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

  

  Baden Powell
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• *I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

  

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• I think there are three kinds of songs; it's only my theory: psychological, emotional, and spiritual. When you write psychologically or intellectually, you have a tune in your mind, and you re-write it. It's an intellectual approach. The emotional is my favorite because it comes from my kishkas; it comes from my soul.

  

  Neil Sedaka
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• Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

  

  James Baldwin
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• Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

  

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• Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Alone
  • Virtue
  • Obstinacy