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 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 solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.
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Qui fait le conseiller n'est plus ambassadeur.
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With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
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I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.
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From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.
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This is the century of fear.
