Albert Camus Quotes
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
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I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.
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When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.
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Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.
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I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
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The new regime which had succeeded his after the coup had become as fragmentary as the old, in the time-honoured way of all revolutions.
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I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.
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Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
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I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
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Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.
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Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.
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I've always lived in a city.
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The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
