Albert Camus Quotes
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
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'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
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I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.
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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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Perfection is a disease of a nation.
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The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
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How'd we come up with the robe? Was some guy just like, 'Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't we make a coat out of a towel? You can have a little belt that goes around. You could dunk the belt in the toilet! Have a toilet belt.'
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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I really try to play to my strengths, man. I'm never going to be Guthrie Govan: he's a brilliant player.
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Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.
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Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself.
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The Gospel is the good news that God isn't angry with you, and that He loves you!
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I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.
