Albert Camus Quotes

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.

Albert Camus

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• I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Emotion

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Think
  • Now

• Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Unknown

• I always had a fascination with twins.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Always
  • Fascination
  • Twins

• There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Women
  • Strong

• My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • Good
  • Road

• 'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.

  

  Randall Park
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Favorite

• This is the essential importance of the Alliance for Better Campaigns' efforts backed by Common Cause. It is our campaign to give free time to all legitimate candidates. … What our campaign asks is that the television industry yield just a tiny percentage of that windfall, less than 1 percent, to fund free airtime.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Free

• Truth was the only daughter of Time.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Daughter

• Unilateralism, as we have painfully seen in Iraq, is its own reward. Going it alone may satisfy a political instinct but it is dangerous to our military, even without their Commander in Chief taunting terrorists to 'bring it on.'

  

  Al Gore
  • May
  • Political
  • Alone

• That's one of the most stupid questions I've heard. I'll go with Mascherano.

  

  Alex Ferguson
  • Stupid

• I think when we build something we love and that others love, then we have done our job.

  

  Craig Federighi
  • Done
  • Job

• I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Up
  • Great
  • Small

• Nothing comes sailing by itself.

  

  Alexander Dale Oen
  • Sailing

• The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.

  

  Marc Ostrofsky
  • Business
  • Purpose
  • Driving

• It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

  

  Alice Hamilton
  • Experience
  • House

• An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Color

• It seems to me that self confidence and the ability to stand one's ground are essential if we want to succeed in life. I am not talking of stupid self-assurance but of an awareness of our inner potential, a certainty that we can always correct our behavior, improve ourselves, enrich ourselves, and that things are never hopeless

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Confidence
  • Stupid

• This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pain

• I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Law
  • Responsibility

• Wisdom comes with winters.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wisdom
  • Winter
  • Comes

• Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Words
  • Confidence
  • Independence