Albert Camus Quotes
People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.
Quotes to Explore
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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If they want to party and do all the things I say brought me sadness in my song, with my song as the soundtrack... so be it.
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I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.
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I love cooking. People seem to enjoy my food, but I absolutely love it. I'm one of those people who will buy a cookery book and take it to bed and read it.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.
