Albert Camus Quotes

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Albert Camus

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• Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

  

  Tea Leoni
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• I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
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• My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
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• The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Think
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• I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Jazz

• My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
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• I've done a lot of things that I regret.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Done
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• The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Life
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• Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
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• I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Life
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• There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

  

  Wayne Newton
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• In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

  

  Kate Morton
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• I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
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• I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.

  

  Nas
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• The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging.

  

  John Sculley
  • People
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• Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.

  

  Peter Mandelson
  • Future
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• Scientists who have thought that they were seeking Truth, but who were trying to find out astronomic, or chemic, or biologic truths. But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete-By Truth I mean the Universal.

  

  Charles Fort
  • Trying
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  • Question

• Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Lost
  • Evil

• The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • World
  • Society
  • Free

• I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Future
  • My Life
  • Regret