Albert Camus Quotes

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

Albert Camus

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• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
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• If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

  Cameron Mathison
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• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Yourself
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• I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

  

  Gary Ross
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• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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  • Day

• My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Theatre
  • Very
  • Formal

• After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
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• I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Technology
  • Need
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• People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • People
  • Win
  • Sick

• I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Dance

• I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Me
  • Myself

• When you are in an unpleasant environment that makes you feel uncomfortable, one of the key ways to improve that situation is through design. That's why I think it is so important to help develop and showcase young designers, as they are our future.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Important
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• We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Want
  • Old

• Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • Study

• The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

  

  John Muir
  • World
  • Growth
  • Distance

• Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Power
  • Strong

• Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.

  

  Edward Topsell
  • Virtue
  • Writers
  • Epigram

• It's a really good format to have, to go back to theatre and build yourself as an actor. I think it's a great skill to go from screen to stage.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Good
  • Great
  • Theatre

• They kissed each other with a deep joy. What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Joy

• Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Alone
  • Virtue
  • Obstinacy