Albert Camus Quotes

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Albert Camus

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• U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Know

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Sad
  • Right
  • Very

• I'm not a control freak.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Control
  • Control Freak

• I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Know

• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Small
  • Very
  • Feet

• The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Know
  • Influence

• My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • School
  • Mother
  • City

• I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

  

  F. E. Smith
  • World
  • Sharp
  • Prizes

• I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Sleep
  • Partner

• With foreign officials come foreign merchants, and with foreign merchants come foreign soldiers. They will usurp our authority and influence to begin with, and in the course of time, our guests will have become our hosts.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Time
  • Influence
  • Soldiers

• When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Kids
  • Change
  • Destiny

• Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Pink
  • Shades

• There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Reality

• I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • God
  • Help
  • Wonder

• After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Up

• I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Music
  • Poetry

• If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • God
  • Money

• The problem when you're a cartoonist and you go into the voting booth is that you have your choice of two guys - one would be best for your country, and one would be best for your business.

  

  Jeff MacNelly
  • Country
  • Business

• We've always done what we do, and we go out and try and get better with each record we make.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Done

• In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Men
  • Live

• As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Society
  • City
  • Desert