Albert Camus Quotes
The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. 'Everything is permitted' does not mean that nothing is forbidden.
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I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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We lie more to strangers than we lie to co-workers. Extroverts lie more than introverts. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do other people. Women lie more to protect other people.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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Take away that fool’s bauble, the mace.
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He knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
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As quoted in Zirkle, Conway (1935), The beginnings of plant hybridization p. 105
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Of course I worry about whitewashing, and I feel very strongly that whitewashing was, is, and continues to be a problem in entertainment.
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I think that the significance of the WNBA is that it has given women a different platform and a different level of respect as professionals, both as players and also in our coaching.
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We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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In losing our worldly self through covenant belonging, we find and become our best eternal self—free, alive, real—and define our most important relationships.
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I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.
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The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. 'Everything is permitted' does not mean that nothing is forbidden.
