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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 LeAnn Rimes

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn’t a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

3 December 2020 Helen Keller

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

3 December 2020 David Duchovny

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

3 December 2020 Stephen Rea

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

3 December 2020 Ahmed Chalabi

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq’s money.

3 December 2020 Thomas Menino

And for the city’s birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston’s great epic – the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

3 December 2020 Lin Yutang

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

3 December 2020 Carole King

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She’s taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

3 December 2020 Frank B. Kellogg

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

3 December 2020 Herb Ritts

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

3 December 2020 Rick Springfield

I’d say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say ‘matured’ but I don’t think I’d use that word in relation to my progress. I think ‘change’ is a little more accurate.

3 December 2020 Toni Braxton

I know for works for me – those wonderful sad love songs.

3 December 2020 Ang Lee

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

3 December 2020 John Perry Barlow

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother’s age.

3 December 2020 Toni Morrison

Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

3 December 2020 Demetri Martin

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

3 December 2020 Jack Schmitt

But I don’t think we’ll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

3 December 2020 George Clooney

I was watching ‘Up In The Air’ and I thought, ‘Jesus, who’s the old gray-haired guy?’ And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it’s starting to show.

3 December 2020 Max Eastman

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

3 December 2020 Harvey Pekar

You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they’ve got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you’ll ever see on TV.

3 December 2020 John Lyly

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

3 December 2020 Peter Sotos

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I’m a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

3 December 2020 Elisabetta Canalis

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love – I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

3 December 2020 August Strindberg

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

3 December 2020 Billie Jean King

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

3 December 2020 David Storey

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.

3 December 2020 Jackson Browne

I’ve also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament – it was about 1982 – they called it Peace Sunday.

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