Albert Camus Quotes

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Albert Camus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960

Topics

KnowledgeTeacherBestPlaceDone

I walk out of my apartment, and St. Vincent's is standing there like a ghost ship. That was the ground zero of AIDS in New York: a conservative institution that quickly adapted to its unconventional patients and made heroic efforts to try and save them.

John Cameron Mitchell

WalkNew YorkShipNewConservative

N.W.A had something in common with the Rolling Stones and MC5 and groups like that: the voice of rebellion. It's rebellion against your parents. It's rebellion against the system. It's rebellion against society.

Jerry Heller

ParentsSocietyVoiceRebellion

My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool, molecularly speaking, and I need to take care of it.

Melissa Leo

MeCareTake CareBodyDoneNeed

In the first two projects I've worked on professionally, I've been doing ensemble work with other young women, which I think is pretty cool. And they both were directed by and written by women. It's been a wonderful experience of real ensemble support and women lifting each other up, and I feel really lucky for that.

Maya Hawke

WorkWomenExperienceSupportCool

I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

Robert Smith

LegacyDoingWantOutGreatestCure

The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

Matthew Perry

HappyMeWorldBetterLaughCamera

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

Amy Schumer

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Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.

Steve Erickson

IndependenceBetterAmericanNothing

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

Ron Suskind

DangerousQuestionConferencePress

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Thomas Jefferson

WarSuccessfulLossesSeldomMost

In general, I probably have a shy nature. So the idea of poking out with my music is probably not something I want to do.

Thomas Newman

NatureMusicWantShyOutSomething

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

Rick Warren

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