Albert Camus Quotes

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Albert Camus

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• You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Life
  • Change
  • Environmental

• My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Up
  • Job
  • Practice

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Work
  • Eye
  • Better

• It takes one person to give you a big chance.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • You
  • Chance
  • Big

• That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Challenge
  • Without
  • Actress

• I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Person
  • Creative
  • Busy

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Learn
  • Understand

• When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Different
  • Team
  • Rest

• I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Good
  • Career
  • Practice

• When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Sing
  • Started
  • Maybe

• The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Country
  • Power
  • Friend

• We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Believe
  • She
  • Sister

• The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Free
  • Reality

• Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

  

  Washington Irving
  • History

• The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Management

• I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in-between.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Death
  • Blessed

• New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Age
  • Society
  • Culture

• The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

  

  George Montgomery
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Workout

• There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Important
  • Future
  • Past

• When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Culture
  • Destiny