Albert Camus Quotes
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
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I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.
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Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
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I was appointed by Hitler to succeed Canaris because it was well known and proven that my abilities were greater than those of Canaris.
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Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.
