Albert Camus Quotes
When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid; it can't last long.' But though the war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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I've had some experience in this arena. So it wasn't foreign to me to have a woman say she doesn't want to see me anymore.
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You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.
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We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.
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TV is the place that writers want to be.
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I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.
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When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid; it can't last long.' But though the war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
