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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

3 December 2020 Billy Corgan

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

3 December 2020 Susie Orbach

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

3 December 2020 Kate Atkinson

My father was an autodidact. It wasn’t a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education – he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn’t allowed to go.

3 December 2020 Zell Miller

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

3 December 2020 Jared Diamond

I’ve worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don’t want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

3 December 2020 Paula Abdul

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

3 December 2020 Peter Diamandis

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

3 December 2020 Hank Azaria

I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it’s amazing then I’ll like watch the whole series in a weekend.

3 December 2020 Robert Orben

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

3 December 2020 Mario Puzo

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

3 December 2020 Retief Goosen

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

3 December 2020 Brendan Coyle

My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn’t enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.

3 December 2020 Paul Farmer

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can’t get medical care or clean water.

3 December 2020 David Ricardo

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

3 December 2020 Colin Firth

I think it’s quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I’m Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

3 December 2020 William Arthur Ward

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

3 December 2020 Thomas Vilsack

Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.

3 December 2020 Joe Jonas

Adele’s amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.

3 December 2020 David Petraeus

People often ask, why aren’t you reading about what it is you’re working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

3 December 2020 Evo Morales

It’s easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.

3 December 2020 Graeme Le Saux

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

3 December 2020 Joyce Carol Oates

Anyone who teaches knows that you don’t really experience a text until you’ve taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Success is dependent on effort.

3 December 2020 Pierre Charron

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

3 December 2020 Elvis Stojko

You’re always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.

3 December 2020 Ridley Scott

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

3 December 2020 Nia Vardalos

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn’t want to see the magic.

3 December 2020 Rene Redzepi

I’ve never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

3 December 2020 William Shatner

My dad died of a stroke.

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