Albert Camus Quotes
The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world - and to pay attention to man.
Quotes to Explore
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
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Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.
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What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
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I'm at a point in my career when my age and nearly 25 years of service, the responsibility of the Ford name, and my father's legacy in Southeast Michigan community affairs, puts me at a crossroads.
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The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world - and to pay attention to man.
