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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Woody Allen

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

3 December 2020 Picabo Street

My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro’ alone.

3 December 2020 Julius Erving

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

3 December 2020 Andre Gide

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’

3 December 2020 Robert Hughes

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

3 December 2020 William H. Macy

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I’ll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

3 December 2020 Emily Mortimer

I’m physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don’t have that sophisticated cool thing down.

3 December 2020 Ed Markey

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation’s leading causes of preventable death, but it’s less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

3 December 2020 Marco Rubio

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

3 December 2020 David Elkind

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

3 December 2020 Milton Friedman

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

3 December 2020 Paul Auster

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

3 December 2020 Horace

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

3 December 2020 Joe Dante

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn’t very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

3 December 2020 Joe Flanigan

Learning what you don’t want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

3 December 2020 Wayne Brady

My mom didn’t let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It’s all escapism.

3 December 2020 Meg White

It’s pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

3 December 2020 Max Lucado

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes – seize it, don’t miss it.

3 December 2020 John Charles Polanyi

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

3 December 2020 Groucho Marx

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens

Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

3 December 2020 John Adams

Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.

3 December 2020 Anthony Hamilton

I wanna change the game in way where I’m not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I’ve been given.

3 December 2020 Angela Davis

Yes, I think it’s really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

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