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Albert Camus Quotes

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960

Topics

Sea Me Poverty Lost Gray Up

On one hand, I can say, you know, I had many family members - I had many people in my extended family who left right after Katrina, who relocated to different cities, right? Houston, Atlanta. Right? Most of them have come back.

Family People You Back I Can Know

Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

John Eisenhower

Professional Sin Duty Soldier Combat

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

Life Soul Me Feel My Life My Soul

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

Comedy Doing You Sketch Like Giant

I feel like there's something interesting to learn from anyone's story, no matter their place in society. I think we've gotten really far away from that - we're in such a celebrity-obsessed culture.

Culture Society Story Think Learn

My view is that we cannot be ruled by fear. When we do that, we are not making ourselves see. We are not thinking things through. We are not looking at what works.

Fear Looking Thinking View See

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

Love Regret Golf Down Cup Role

As long as I get a medal, I'm okay with sharing it.

Long Sharing Okay Get Medal

The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.

Technology People World Think Learn

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Chuck Palahniuk

Best Competition Try Difficult See

There definitely has been this kind of Hollywood swing back from the pendulum of, 'OK, we're gonna do gay people; we're gonna do queens.' And then it's like, 'No, no, no queens. Queen is too much.'

Queen People Back Gay Too Much Kind

Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really wanted to be a medical doctor, and I had various schemes: one was to be a psychiatrist, another was tropical medicine.

Time Medical School Mind Writing

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