Albert Camus Quotes
To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
Quotes to Explore
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.
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I'm just very body-conscious. Sometimes I'm really proud that I don't look like other pop stars. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
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If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
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How long will we keep making films where hero-heroine is dancing around trees?
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I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
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In my art work, hand painting would take much too long and anyway that's not the age we're living in.
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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When I started training martial arts, I learned about respect.
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I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.
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America is fundamentally exceptional. No one in the history of the world had ever done anything to compare with what the Founders did, creating a fragile mechanism by which men and women could actually govern themselves.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.
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All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.
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To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
