Albert Camus Quotes
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
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My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.
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Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
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No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.
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The simple fact was that she no longer hated them as a matter of principle. It was also a source of shameful amazement that she could ever have wasted so much energy on groundless prejudice, when acceptance and tolerance would have been the easier, even the lazier, course.
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Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.
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Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
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I love fashion, but fashion is not my whole life.
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First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.
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The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.
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If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity.
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It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
