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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Heath Ledger

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

3 December 2020 Red Skelton

If by chance some day you’re not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I’ve said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

3 December 2020 Judy Biggert

As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

3 December 2020 Richard Rogers

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

3 December 2020 Barry White

There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

3 December 2020 Shirley MacLaine

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I’m used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

3 December 2020 Jean Paul

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

3 December 2020 Mos Def

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn’t just about being noticed, you know?

3 December 2020 Dave Mustaine

I’ve never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he’s cool, because he’s not.

3 December 2020 Will Durant

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

3 December 2020 Helen Hayes

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn’t original sin. He’s born with the tragedy that he has to grow up… a lot of people don’t have the courage to do it.

3 December 2020 Alice Rivlin

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

3 December 2020 Ernest Gaines

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

3 December 2020 Eugenio Montale

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks and so may no one touch you who loves you.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

3 December 2020 Ralph Marston

Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

3 December 2020 Tim Vine

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you’ll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they’re both enjoying it.

3 December 2020 Larry Dixon

We’re going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

3 December 2020 Michael Musto

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

3 December 2020 Archibald McLeish

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

3 December 2020 William Ernest Hocking

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

3 December 2020 Orson Welles

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

3 December 2020 Michael Buble

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

3 December 2020 Leslie Caron

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?

3 December 2020 Debra Winger

People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.

3 December 2020 Rob McKenna

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

3 December 2020 Leighton Meester

A nutritionist helps me eat healthily at home.

3 December 2020 Barbara Januszkiewicz

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

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