Albert Camus Quotes
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (This quotation is from Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951, not Myth of Sisyphus. The quotation appears in none of Camus books you find in bookstores).
Quotes to Explore
-
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
-
I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
-
You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
-
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
-
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
-
I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
-
My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
-
I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
-
I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
-
I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
-
I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
-
I like excess. And giant M&M's.
-
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
-
I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
-
We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
-
We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
-
I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
-
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
-
A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
-
It's funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it - I just thought it was normal.
-
I'm interested in what stops people getting what they want.
-
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (This quotation is from Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951, not Myth of Sisyphus. The quotation appears in none of Camus books you find in bookstores).
