Top 34 Camara Quotes
#1. Dom Helder Camara, a twentieth-century bishop in Brazil, said, When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a Communist.
Shane Claiborne
#2. When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.
Mo Ibrahim
#3. I ran up the street. All the way to Largo da Camara. Got there very tired. Mad, rather than tired. Uninvited old man. Little shits. They'll see who's the uninvited old man, motherfuckers.
Ignacio De Loyola Brandao
#4. Smile for the camara, Ellamara," he whispered. "I promise I won't bite." But even as he promised this, his teeth gently nipped my ear.
Now I did gasp, and he laughed again. "Not hard, anyway." he amended.
Kelly Oram
#5. Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye ... I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#6. Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.
Helder Camara
#7. God looks unjust but is not. God asks more from those who more is given. They are not greater or better; they have greater responsibility. They must give more service. Live to serve.
Helder Camara
#8. A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
Thomas Browne
#9. If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
Antonio Porchia
#10. A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.
Javier Camara
#11. When the tip of his tongue touches the little hard nub of my clitoris I feel the same jolt in my sex as I do in my throat when I light up. There must be a connection.
Chloe Thurlow
#12. Sometimes, rehearsals are not worth it if you do not have an accurate cast, and that is one of the most difficult parts about a film.
Javier Camara
#13. In the Father's house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants ...
Helder Camara
#14. When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
Helder Camara
#15. That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.
Paul Hawken
#16. Here in America, every single actor, since they were little boys, they sing and dance and perform like angels. We don't do that. We are actors who work in a theater in very classic performances or plays.
Javier Camara
#17. UX Design is a practical yet very thoughtful discipline, and a UX Designer's single most important skill is the ability to learn and adapt.
Chad Camara
#18. All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.
Camara Laye
#19. It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well, of course, we have violence, some murders, some terrorism and a lot of things. We have suffered a dictatorship, and we talk about the civil war constantly.
Javier Camara
#23. What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
Friedrich Engels
#24. Actors are always looking for the eyes of the other actors because you need help and you need connection.
Javier Camara
#25. Amos Wilson teaches that, "To manipulate history is to manipulate consciousness; to manipulate consciousness is to manipulate possibilities; to manipulate possibilities is to manipulate power."[2]
Samori Camara
#26. When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.
Javier Camara
#27. All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.
Eric Clapton
#28. Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is in the shot. He's going to use this at the beginning and the end.
Javier Camara
#29. They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.
Camara Laye
#30. When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Helder Camara
#31. The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.
Javier Camara
#32. Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.
Helder Camara
#33. Anytime, day or night, at home or in the street, wherever we are, we are bathed in God.
Helder Camara
#34. I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity.
Helder Camara
