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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'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 -
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
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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.'
Jim Gaffigan -
You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
Ernest Hemingway -
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
Mike Myers -
Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.
Carl Yastrzemski -
I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.
Michael Caine
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God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
Regina Brett -
The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.
Stephen Hadley -
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