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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And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
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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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You’ll understand one day how murderous, how suicidal, individual isolation is. You’ll cry then, suffocated by our culture’s cannibal loving.
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So Am I' is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in - just celebrating what really makes you different.
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Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
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The area where we struggle the most is often the area of our greatest effectiveness
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I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.
