Albert Camus Quotes

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

Albert Camus

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• Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.

  

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• But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

  

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• I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.

  

  Otis Rush
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• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

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• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Love
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• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
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• When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Done
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• The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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  • Sacrifice

• Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Women
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• A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

  

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• It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
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• The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

  

  Garrett Fort
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  • Believe
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• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

  Vera Wang
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• I'm really funny now.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Art
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• I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Live
  • Dream

• A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.

  

  Cliff Chiang
  • Great
  • Past
  • Ignore

• At the most basic level, a central bank must be clear and open about its actions and operations, particularly when they involve the deployment of public funds.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Actions
  • Operations
  • Deployment

• Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • History
  • Nature