Albert Camus Quotes
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
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During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them.
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The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
