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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Al Yankovic

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

3 December 2020 Thomas S. Monson

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

3 December 2020 William Gibson

The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.

3 December 2020 Joel Osteen

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

3 December 2020 Paul Hawken

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

3 December 2020 Gus Van Sant

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me… as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it’s one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you’re gay.

3 December 2020 Bill Gates

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

3 December 2020 Rudyard Kipling

It’s clever, but is it Art?

3 December 2020 E. M. Forster

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

3 December 2020 Robert Plant

You can’t give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know you’ve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

3 December 2020 Queen Elizabeth II

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

3 December 2020 Mark Udall

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

3 December 2020 Rachel Bilson

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

3 December 2020 Ray Kurzweil

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

3 December 2020 Kit Bond

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

3 December 2020 Charles Wesley

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

3 December 2020 Robert Frost

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it’s egotism.

3 December 2020 Donna Karan

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about space and form and it’s something you can share with other people.

3 December 2020 James Taylor

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

3 December 2020 Michael K. Williams

God has blessed me. I’ve been given a lot. I’m at peace with myself. It’s time to give back.

3 December 2020 Denzel Washington

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

3 December 2020 Kristin Kreuk

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

3 December 2020 Kenneth Koch

As for political poetry, as it’s usually defined, it seems there’s very little good political poetry.

3 December 2020 Will Oldham

I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That’s fine, but they don’t know me.

3 December 2020 Amitabh Bachchan

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don’t know now either.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

3 December 2020 Alfred Adler

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient’s condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

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