Albert Camus Quotes
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
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I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.
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We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.
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You've given me strength to find home.
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The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
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It’s still a pretty sexist world out there and someone’s got to stand up and say something.
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My thoughts were chasing each other all over the place, but nothing seemed to sort itself out. Advice, I thought. Ask his advice. On love? Finance? Career? Better stick to love, I decided, it’s what’s on your mind anyway. And with that my mind went blank.
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They have to have an enemy. They have to create you as their enemy in order for them to continue their existence. It’s very ironic.
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There is no Negro problem. There is no southern problem. There is no northern problem. There is only an American problem. Many of the issues of civil rights are very complex and most difficult. But about this there can and should be no argument. Every American citizen must have the right to vote.
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My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.
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You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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I’ve watched therapy getting more and more mushy in the past fifteen years in America.... It’s become what I call coercive compassion. It’s disgusting, it’s condescending, it’s insulting, it’s coddling, it keeps everyone in an infantile condition rather than in the adult condition that was the ultimate goal of Freudian analysis.
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'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'
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The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.
