Albert Camus Quotes
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
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The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.
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I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
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Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.
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It's not that I don't feel bad about it. It's just that I don't feel worse today than what I felt yesterday.
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Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
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I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.
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The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.. .I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
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Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americas signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these people are not 'disabled' as that term is generally understood. Rather, it's the U.S. economy that's disabled, and thus Obama incentivizes dependency.
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No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life." "Why?" he asked, opening both his eyes. "Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?
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People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.
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The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.
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I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
