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  • [Albert Camus] was not an existentialist! -- Catherine Camus
  • My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's. -- Dick Cavett
  • In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll. -- Yahoo Serious
  • Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure. -- Jonah Hill
  • It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall. -- Billy Joe Saunders
  • I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him. -- Studs Terkel
  • Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." -Albert Einstein -- Barbara Post-Askin
  • Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical. -- Niels Bohr
  • Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you. -- Veronica Roth
  • So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses. -- Bonnie Bassler
  • [Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism. -- Catherine Camus
  • Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues -- B. B. King
  • Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. -- Peter Jennings
  • [Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher. -- Catherine Camus
  • My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks. -- Robin Tunney
  • Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming. -- Henry Rollins
  • I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books. -- Catherine Camus
  • No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Try not to be a man of success, but a man of value." - Albert Einstein -- Kate Larkinson
  • I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet. -- James Earl Jones
  • A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. -- Tom Shales
  • We must remember that [Albert] Camus wrote not even a third of what he had wished to. -- Catherine Camus
  • I wanted to be Marv Albert or Bob Costas. Those were my favorites growing up. Still are! -- Dave Pasch
  • A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
  • It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place. -- Catherine Camus
  • Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent. -- Paul Theroux
  • Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland. -- John James Ingalls
  • [Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings. -- Catherine Camus
  • The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile. -- Catherine Camus
  • French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable. -- Catherine Camus
  • We can enhance our intelligences, but I am never going to become Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, or Pele. -- Howard Gardner
  • They both smiled at the picture of Albert in his chinos and button-down shirt exhorting kids from atop a bike. -- Michael Grant
  • I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films. -- Illeana Douglas
  • Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins. -- Catherine Camus
  • This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world. -- Jacqueline Woodson
  • There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves. -- Bill Bryson
  • Back on the block they probably call Big Al Fat Albert but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends. -- Derrick Wolf
  • Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff. -- Cathie Pelletier
  • Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • [Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him. -- Catherine Camus
  • Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both. -- Emily Gould
  • The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943. -- Ralph Metzner
  • [Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself. -- Catherine Camus
  • A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman. -- Kenneth Turan
  • I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London. -- Dick Dale
  • There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall of communism. -- Catherine Camus
  • [Albert] Camus points out that we have a lot of things to pass through. Everything has to be accepted before it can be improved. -- Catherine Camus
  • What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it. -- Peter Buffett
  • Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Albert Camus did not know he was summing up modern photojournalism when he wrote:"Will I kill myself or have a cup of coffee -- Sacha Hartgers
  • I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me. -- Carole King
  • I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King. -- Angus Young
  • Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation. -- Catherine Camus
  • Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world. -- Edward Abbey
  • Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe." -- Brian Tracy
  • When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think about the problem". -- W. Edwards Deming
  • I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie. -- Andy Kindler
  • Albert Einstein didn't care where he lived. Albert Einstein was a genius. Albert Einstein wasn't getting lost in the master bedroom, he was lost in thought. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • When I lived in Paris in the early '80s, I had the occasion to hang out with Prince Albert of Monaco quite a few times. -- Cheech Marin
  • One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein. -- Michio Kaku
  • I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that had been conferred upon him. -- Catherine Camus
  • If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going to feel cheated. -- Rodney Brooks
  • Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU! -- Eddie Izzard
  • [Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty. -- Catherine Camus
  • When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy. -- Christian de Duve
  • If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again. -- Don Yaeger
  • In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall a political thing, a kind of misunderstanding. -- Catherine Camus
  • The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed. -- Catherine Camus
  • [Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies. -- N. T. Wright
  • The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks. -- Sharon Stone
  • I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people. -- Hans-Uwe Bauer
  • Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner. -- Marc Guggenheim
  • I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer. -- Bernard Arnault
  • Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth. -- Salman Rushdie
  • There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein. -- Gregory Peck
  • There is in Albert Camusâ?? literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear. -- Aberjhani
  • Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein, they're both so ahead of our time. It's just fascinating to read about them, what their theories are on loopholes and everything else. It's fascinating stuff. -- Kellan Lutz
  • I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction. -- Otis Rush
  • If we think of Albert Schweitzer, Ghandi, Lincoln, we feel that the people who were the most outstanding in the this world are those who have given the most of themselves. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat. -- Catherine Camus
  • I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru. -- David Tennant
  • I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny. -- Illeana Douglas
  • In 1968, I left Cambridge and went to work in New York with Irving M. London, who was then the chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. -- Tim Hunt
  • Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's agreed that he was always a great writer. -- Catherine Camus
  • I don't expect that Albert Gore is going to become president, and I certainly hope we never see Tipper Gore in the White House. Can you imagine Tipper saying, "Just say no"? -- Frank Zappa
  • When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate the art and culture much more because of him. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side of his work, about Algeria, the heat and so on. -- Catherine Camus
  • This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distances. The fair draws people from as far away as Albert Lea, Owatonna and the Twin Cities. -- Eddie Murphy
  • The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago. -- Hermann Minkowski
  • My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far. -- Victoria Moran
  • And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners. -- Howard Zinn
  • I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her, dedicated to 'you who will never be able to read this book'. -- Catherine Camus
  • We know in history that great individuals have totally changed everything, whether it be Jesus Christ or Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill or Albert Einstein. I actually think every person can make a difference. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy. -- Michael Morpurgo
  • I love all of Albert Brooks' work from 'Defending Your Life' back to his first film, 'Real Life', but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work. -- Douglas Wood
  • Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • [French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad conscience about it. [Albert] Camus has a greater proximity to those in poverty. -- Catherine Camus
  • The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician. -- Mickey Hart
  • Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two. -- Roy H. Williams
  • if he had married Mrs. Albert Grantham for her money I freely admit that no man marries without a reason and with her it would have been next to impossible to think up another one. -- Rex Stout
  • Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity. -- Aberjhani
  • There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature is, and he replies that the next great writer of the future is [Albert] Camus. -- Catherine Camus
  • I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had. -- Anthony Hopkins
  • I know he (Albert Belle) hates me. If he needs that hate to succeed, it's fine by me. I always liked him. He was a good kid. He just had a hard time with the pressure. -- Skip Bertman
  • My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space." And so my father couldn't believe that an attraction at a distance was a reality. -- Paul Laffoley
  • My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr. -- Horton Foote
  • 'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ...advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, an American version of the Nobel Prize. ...and Memorial Sloan Kettering trustees. -- Ralph W. Moss
  • When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head. -- Jack Davenport
  • Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons. -- Martin Luther
  • [Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that he learnt his 'morality'. It's something sensed, it won't pass uniquely through thought. It couldn't possibly. -- Catherine Camus
  • [Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire. It's not like those who are exiled to a country where the language is not theirs. -- Catherine Camus
  • Albert Einstein once reported, "Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds." If you want to achieve your own greatness, to climb your own mountains, you'll have to use yourself as your first and last consultant. -- Wayne Dyer
  • I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen, which was important both for her character and for your introduction to her when Albert comes to visit. -- Debbie Reynolds
  • One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a novel by Albert Camus. Pretty soon you'll be so baffled you'll forget the question. -- Gary Reilly
  • One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look at his real physical involvement in the Resistance. He took part, there, in the combat against Nazism. -- Catherine Camus
  • I am deeply honored that my team is being recognized by H.S.H. Prince Albert II and the Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo for Disney/ABC's role in creating television that inspires and captivates audiences wherever they live. -- Anne Sweeney
  • I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing. -- Chevy Chase
  • When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one. -- Bill Bryson
  • I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep! -- B. B. King
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