Albert Camus Quotes
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
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I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.
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Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
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I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
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Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.
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Often the raw ideas like ‘Relax’ and ‘Rage Hard’ - are the best. ‘Rage Hard’ just happened. There was little conscious effort.
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Here is a list of fearful things:The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's of war,The voice of one who went before.But most of all the mirror's gaze,which counts us out our numbered days.
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For at the real heart of battle for equality is a deep-seated belief in the democratic process. Equality depends not on the force of arms or tear gas but upon the force of moral right; not on recourse to violence but on respect for law and order.
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It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.
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Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.
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Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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The only way to make a criticism of something is to really participate in it. I'm a completely capitalist person. I participate in commodity culture and the fashion world. High art is a money-making vehicle. We're not making art in a vacuum. We're not shopping in the woods. These are all things that we do within the larger system of capitalism. For me to critique it, I'm also participating in it. That's obvious, I feel. In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.
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In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
