Albert Camus Quotes
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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Through art, you create your own world.
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Our attention will focus on the institutional context of technological innovation rather than … individual inventors, for the actual course of work that leads to the conception and use of technology always involves a group that has worked for a considerable period of time on the basic idea before success is achieved.
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Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
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If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.
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Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
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It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
