Albert Camus Quotes
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.
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I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.
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I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.
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Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
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Sleep helps you win at life.
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Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have some kind of feeling or sense of concern. Some sort of responsibility and with that, a sense of discipline.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....
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When you talk to a young teenage girl, they're just full of self-loathing. The reason they feel self-loathing is they don't feel normal. It is a world that has not been built for them. It's been built for men, and that's why they feel bad.
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As President Bush just said, a great nation doesn’t shy from the truth. It strengthens us. It emboldens us. It should fortify us.
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Supporting and headlining are both such valuable experiences; I’m really grateful for any experience to play in front of people. The thing about supporting is that you get to play in front of a larger audience and you kind of get to see how crowd that doesn’t necessarily know you reacts to your set.
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It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
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I know no surer way of shaking off the dreary crust formed about the soul by the trying to do one’s duty or the patient enduring of having somebody else’s duty done to one, than going out alone, either at the bright beginning of the day, when the earth is still unsoiled by the feet of the strenuous and only God is abroad; or in the evening, when the hush has come, out to the blessed stars, and looking up at them wonder at the meanness of the day just past, at the worthlessness of the things one has struggled for, at the folly of having been so angry, and so restless, and so much afraid. Nothing focusses life more exactly than a little while alone at night with the stars. What are perfunctory bedroom prayers hurried through in an atmosphere of blankets, to this deep abasement of the spirit before the majesty of heaven? And as a consecration of what should be yet one more happy day, of what value are those hasty morning devotions.
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I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.
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Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.
