Albert Camus Quotes
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
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All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.
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I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.
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As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
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People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.
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Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.
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Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it.
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I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.
