Albert Camus Quotes

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Albert Camus

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • Need
  • Mine

• In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Energy
  • Always
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• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Lose
  • Sight

• I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Leaving

• I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Money
  • Business
  • Value

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.

  

  Dana Perino
  • You
  • Goal
  • Others

• When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Kids
  • Man
  • Film

• When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

  

  Pat Morita
  • People
  • May
  • Know

• Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets are not those who write poems, but those who know which of the things they write are poems.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Men
  • Poetry

• I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Intelligent

• PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die-ever-and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Time
  • Die
  • Deep

• The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Music
  • History

• Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • God
  • Character
  • Faith

• The fact that some of these Arab states are willing to make this public is heartening, and it's a fair response to the Sharon government for the courage which the Sharon government has shown in moving out of Gaza and those four West Bank settlements.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Moving
  • Courage
  • Public

• Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Perspective

• I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Things
  • Ignored

• The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Think
  • Learn
  • Doing

• And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Heart
  • Courage
  • Nobility