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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.

3 December 2020 Gina Gershon

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don’t trust people who don’t like to eat.

3 December 2020 Epictetus

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

3 December 2020 John D. MacDonald

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will.

3 December 2020 John Burroughs

A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

3 December 2020 Tony Snow

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

3 December 2020 Channing Pollock

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

3 December 2020 Gerard Arpey

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I’m pretty sure we’re just getting started.

3 December 2020 Kamala Harris

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.

3 December 2020 Roger Moore

It’s wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

3 December 2020 Hugh Laurie

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

3 December 2020 Richard Roeper

Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

3 December 2020 Nicki Minaj

So, my happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

3 December 2020 Etta James

Even as a little child, I’ve always had that comedian kind of attitude.

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

Call no man happy till he is dead.

3 December 2020 David Ogilvy

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

3 December 2020 Edward R. Murrow

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

3 December 2020 Viktor E. Frankl

The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.

3 December 2020 John Burroughs

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

3 December 2020 Jessye Norman

There’s no anger ever in a spiritual. There’s always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I’m experiencing.

3 December 2020 Herman Hesse

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

3 December 2020 Cameron Diaz

I have to remind my dad, ‘Journalists – no matter how many cigars they smoke with you – are not your friends, so don’t talk to them.’

3 December 2020 Clare Short

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear – Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn’t promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.

3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges

I think there’s a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

3 December 2020 Danny Boyle

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.

3 December 2020 Diane Kruger

Her beauty didn’t do her any good and she couldn’t use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.

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