Albert Camus Quotes

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

Albert Camus

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• If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.

  

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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?

  

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

  

  Fidel Castro
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
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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.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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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'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.

  

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

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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• I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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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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• I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
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• There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?

  

  W. H. Auden
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• I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'

  

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• My father taught me how to hunt.

  

  John David Washington
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• I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.

  

  Nagisa Oshima

• Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Alone
  • Virtue
  • Obstinacy