Albert Camus Quotes

Un homme se définit aussi bien par ses comédies que par ses élans sincères.1

Albert Camus

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• There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • President
  • Battle
  • Syria

• As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Mind
  • Enemy
  • Stupid

• You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Time
  • Job
  • Law

• In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • School
  • High
  • Goal

• We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Value

• Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Business
  • Model
  • Matter

• Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Voting

• A closed mind is a dying mind.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Mind
  • Dying
  • Closed

• The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • You
  • Basketball

• I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • School
  • Wife
  • Understanding

• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Life
  • Spring
  • Brilliant

• I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Women
  • Fighting
  • Health care

• I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Business

• When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Reading

• Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Election
  • Optimism

• I certainly support civil unions.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Support
  • Certainly
  • Unions

• The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Problem
  • Answer
  • Principle

• There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Annoying
  • Mythology
  • Conductor

• The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Writing
  • Country
  • English

• Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.

  

  Antonio Negri
  • Society
  • Prison
  • Punishment

• I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Life
  • God
  • Beautiful

• I can't hide my feelings. I'm efficient. I've always been that way.

  

  Amy Schumer

• Un homme se définit aussi bien par ses comédies que par ses élans sincères.1

  

  Albert Camus