Albert Camus Quotes
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
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The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
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To seek the highest good is to live well.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.
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Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
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A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.
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Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.
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'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.
