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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• My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

  

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• To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed

  

  Harold B. Lee
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• All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

  

  e. e. cummings
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  • Alone
  • Singing

• It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Time
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• Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Alone
  • Virtue
  • Obstinacy