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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Alan Rickman

I think there’s some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

3 December 2020 Brian Koslow

Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.

3 December 2020 Betty White

I’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

3 December 2020 Jennifer O'Neill

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you’re doomed right off.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

3 December 2020 William Blake

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

3 December 2020 Oscar Niemeyer

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

3 December 2020 Tim Pawlenty

One of the things about leadership is that you’ve got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you’ve got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

3 December 2020 Jim Rohn

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

3 December 2020 Jaime King

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

3 December 2020 David Ogden Stiers

High school music teachers… nobody makes a living off it.

3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

3 December 2020 Ausonius

Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.

3 December 2020 Marcus V. Pollio

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

3 December 2020 Jamie Lee Curtis

My marriage? Up to now everything’s okay. But it’s a real marriage – imperfect and very difficult. It’s all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we’ve emotionally evolved.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

The future is purchased by the present.

3 December 2020 William Glasser

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

3 December 2020 William Hurt

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

3 December 2020 Gianni Versace

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith

War remains the decisive human failure.

3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

3 December 2020 Cory Monteith

I’m pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it’s gonna be learning my lines.

3 December 2020 Emily Deschanel

My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can’t imagine doing it any other way. It’s cheap and much better for the environment, and you don’t have to lug all that stuff around.

3 December 2020 Ariel Sharon

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

3 December 2020 Laura Benanti

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

3 December 2020 Jean Baudrillard

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

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