Albert Camus Quotes
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.
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People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
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As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
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I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
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I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.
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In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.
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I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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Exercising with a trainer makes my quality of life go through the roof.
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Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. … But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
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Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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When someone tells me, 'Oh, we have so many problems on Earth; space exploration costs too much money,' I say, 'I absolutely agree with you. But I still hope we do it.'
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
