Albert Camus Quotes
Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
Quotes to Explore
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.
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For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men to show up in my studio in the clothes that they want to be wearing. And often times, those clothes would be the same trappings people would see on television and find menacing.
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I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.
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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
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Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
