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.
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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 am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
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I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.
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I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?
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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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My biggest goal for the future is motherhood.
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A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible.
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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
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Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.
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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.
