Albert Camus Quotes

Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

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• The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Day
  • Water
  • Person

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Unity
  • Limit
  • Nationalism

• Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Acceptance

• I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Strong
  • Path
  • Matter

• If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Singing
  • Nails

• There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Question
  • Problems
  • Blind

• Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Man
  • Clock

• One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Good
  • Work
  • History

• I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • End
  • Moment
  • Him

• Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Art
  • Death
  • Courage

• When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
  • Day

• Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Done
  • America
  • Wife

• I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Money
  • Success
  • Passion

• A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Personality

• Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, 'I quickly moved on to...the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really.' (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)

  

  Edward VIII
  • King

• For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Equality

• More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Music
  • Art
  • Literature

• If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

  

  Carrie P. Meek
  • Children
  • Crime
  • Save

• Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Women
  • Earth
  • Paradise