Albert Camus Quotes

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

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• But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Music
  • Words
  • Relationship

• I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Research
  • Academic
  • Storyteller

• After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Idea
  • Creatures
  • Poems

• Oakland kids are always the best.

  

  Zendaya
  • Kids
  • Best
  • Always

• What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I don't write about Google except to insult the company.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Company
  • Insult
  • Google

• There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • World
  • Doors
  • Opening

• Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Model
  • Class
  • Lingerie

• In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • World
  • Money
  • American

• I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Career
  • Very
  • Been

• I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Communism

• I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Real
  • Nice

• It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Family
  • Job

• I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Family

• 'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Laugh

• There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Life
  • Difference
  • Face

• I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Different
  • Character
  • Girl

• I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'What is your inspiration?' I could throw up. I mean, I'm inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I'm still here.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Eyes
  • Morning
  • Learn

• In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.

  

  Cecil Rhodes
  • Population
  • Markets
  • Civil War

• It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Matter

• From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

  

  Albert Camus
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