Albert Camus Quotes
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Quotes to Explore
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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And yet it moves.
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Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
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I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
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When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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However, as if all the suffering was not enough, I was also accused of the death and misery of my own loved ones, my Gujarati brothers and sisters. Can you imagine the inner turmoil and shock of being blamed for the very events that have shattered you!
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I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
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Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
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Life must not cease. That comes before everything. It is silly to say you do not care. You do care. It is that care that will prompt your imagination; inflame your desires; make your will irresistible; and create out of nothing.
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You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.
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In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.
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It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
