Albert Camus Quotes
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
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I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
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Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.
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My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.
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When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.
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I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.
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Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
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I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
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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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Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
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If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved.
