Albert Camus Quotes
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.
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Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.
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I think the process of 'I Love It' becoming such a big song opened my eyes to sides of the industry that I'd never been aware of, which I wasn't so into.
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We used to have a bull. A real bull. At that time, Jennifer Lopez was my neighbor. God bless her, she took it. But other neighbors did not like it, that we have a bull.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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EmilyAnd her love to beCarved in a heartOn a berry treeBut it's only a little farewell lovespellTime to design a woman
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At some point, you're just happy to be a working actor, but to be able to do it with people you really love and enjoy spending time with, it's just such a rare thing. You hear so many horror stories.
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
