Albert Camus Quotes

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

Albert Camus

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• Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Done
  • Sun
  • Influence

• I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Good
  • Game
  • College

• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Book
  • Write
  • Fans

• There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • America
  • Discussion

• I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Done

• In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.

  

  Cam
  • Life
  • Live
  • Awesome

• The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Knowledge
  • Best
  • Moving

• Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Car
  • Better
  • Exercise

• It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Kind
  • Being
  • Radio

• Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Beautiful
  • Freedom
  • Rock

• A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Right
  • Vegetables

• The law is cruel.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Cruel

• Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Work
  • United States

• When songs make me wanna throw up, it makes me ashamed to even be in the same genre as those songs.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Songs
  • Ashamed
  • Genre

• Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • War
  • Peace
  • Last

• It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Truth
  • Treasure
  • Separate

• Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Men
  • Children

• There is something about the mental act of thanksgiving that seems to carry the human mind far beyond the region of doubt into the clear atmosphere of faith and trust, where "all things are possible."

  

  H. Emilie Cady
  • Mind
  • Faith
  • Trust

• After my skate, I took off my dress, I changed and I really didn't think I was going to get a medal. I was just a little bit in shock, just sitting there.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Changed
  • Dress
  • Medal

• Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • California
  • Persistence
  • Rains

• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Freedom
  • Reward
  • Solitary