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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Dario Fo

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

3 December 2020 Plato

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Granholm

We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

3 December 2020 Robert H. Schuller

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

3 December 2020 Maggie Gallagher

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other’s eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

3 December 2020 Joshua Foer

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.

3 December 2020 Isaac Hayes

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

3 December 2020 Garrett Hardin

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

3 December 2020 Jane Fonda

It’s hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I’m not discouraged.

3 December 2020 Robert Mapplethorpe

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can’t be.

3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

3 December 2020 Krista Allen

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men – that they never mature and are always just boys.

3 December 2020 Charles Van Doren

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle’s Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

3 December 2020 Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I was raised to believe in myself. I know I’m cool. I’m not trying to brag or say I’m the man or anything like that. I don’t lie or cheat, and I’m not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Renner

I don’t change. The things around me change.

3 December 2020 Sean William Scott

So the first thing that I thought about was, ‘How is this car going to handle?’ But then after I’d been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that, then I just kind of sat back.

3 December 2020 Michael Eisner

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

3 December 2020 Harvey Fierstein

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it’s a – knock wood – hit, the checks come in for many years.

3 December 2020 Chris Anderson

And this is one way to do technology forecasting get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

3 December 2020 Anthony J. D'Angelo

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

3 December 2020 Steve Irwin

Yeah, I’m a thrill seeker, but crikey, education’s the most important thing.

3 December 2020 Fiona Apple

You know, I’ve always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

3 December 2020 Thomas Haden Church

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it’s just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

3 December 2020 Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

3 December 2020 Grover Cleveland

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

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