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.Albert Camus
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
Edgar Guest -
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes -
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar Fiedler -
I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
Gary Larson -
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
E. W. Howe -
If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
Vincent Cassel
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Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
Barbet Schroeder -
'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.
Ian Holm -
I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.
Karrine Steffans -
I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
Alexander McQueen -
Perfection is a disease of a nation.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
Jay-Z
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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.
W. S. Gilbert -
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.'
Jim Gaffigan -
You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
Ernest Hemingway -
Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.
Simon Sinek -
A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.
Henry Ward Beecher
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At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.
Anna Funder -
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.
Albert Camus