Albert Camus Quotes

We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I'm understated in my approach.
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
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I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'
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I grew six inches in a year.
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From one moment to another one can lose heart.
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I'm drawn to the primitive, the ritual and fetish elements.
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Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.
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I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I did films with Wanda Ventham, Benedict’s mother, and we lived in the same area, in Kensington. So I’d be out with my pram and Wanda and I would be talking and there was poor little Benedict, who I suppose was about four, standing there while we were gossiping in the high street for hours!
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The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.
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We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.