Albert Camus Quotes

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Albert Camus

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• I'm really just a normal person.

  

  Vanna White
  • Person
  • Just
  • Normal

• The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Moon
  • Solar

• Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Want
  • Hand

• I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Think
  • Me
  • Competition

• In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Science

• I love the physicality side of roles, I really do, And when I get to do my own stunts, it's that much cooler. I'll do anything the production safety people will let me.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Roles

• He checked, of course. Being sure and being willing to risk that surety against his future were not the same thing.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Future
  • Risk

• Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • May
  • Help
  • Knowledge

• Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

  

  Jane Goodall

• I couldn't sit in a chair in an office all day.

  

  Danny Meyer

• The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • Past
  • Justice

• The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.

  

  Jens Stoltenberg
  • People
  • Experience
  • Culture

• I needed to see if I could have fun in a project again, and 'Riverdale' was a project that ended up looking like a tonne of fun.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Up
  • Fun

• I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

  

  David Mamet

• If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Music

• One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

  

  Leslie Fiedler

• I was on Twitter right in the first couple months that it was out.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • Couple

• The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • She
  • Friend
  • Inspired

• The ambition of the original Frank had not died; it had grown subtler. It had become a wish to sample everything. The more bodily habitations there were with which to sample, the more tantalizing the idea seemed: for many experiences, belonging only to one brief era, are never repeated, and may be gone before they are perceived and tasted.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • May
  • Wish
  • Ambition

• I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Music
  • Rebel

• On the one hand I have very traditional values: I'm looking for love and want a baby one day. On the other hand, I have a secret and rebel side, that I maybe took from an Australian mom who handed down to me the love for adventure and freedom. And sometimes I feel a bit offbeat.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Freedom
  • Hand
  • Mom

• If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open eyes what is better and what is inferior. Even if the choice has to lie between two momentary gains, one of these would always be found to be more real and lasting; that is the one that should be followed for the time.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Renunciation
  • Inferior

• In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Help
  • Hope

• What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Rebel
  • Refusal
  • Renunciation