Albert Camus Quotes

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Albert Camus

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• If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

  

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• I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

  

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• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

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• Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

  

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• We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

  

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• When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

  

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• I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'

  

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• We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.

  

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• I hate downtime.

  

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• Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

  

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• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

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• I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

  

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• When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.

  

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• It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

  

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• When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

  

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• I think some people don't truly understand the situation, and they think, you know, the debt limit, it doesn't really mean anything, and they don't understand the implications on the U.S. economy and on the global markets.

  

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• We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.

  

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• I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

  

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• So, are you just going to stand there looking like a piece of furniture?

  

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• Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

  

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• How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

  

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• When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Language
  • Silence
  • Tricks