Albert Camus Quotes
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
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I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
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I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world - and to pay attention to man.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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This is the century of fear.
