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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Anna Chlumsky

When you’re a child, no matter if you’re doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

3 December 2020 Bernard de Mandeville

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don’t resent them, you are not fit to live.

3 December 2020 Gates McFadden

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

3 December 2020 Antisthenes

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

3 December 2020 Edgar Allan Poe

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

3 December 2020 Will Rogers

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

3 December 2020 Harrison Ford

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

3 December 2020 Tahar Ben Jelloun

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I’ll continue to subsidize my own work.

3 December 2020 John Keats

Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.

3 December 2020 Bob Odenkirk

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that’s a cool thing. I don’t think it’s exploded or anything, but I think it’s pretty cool that it still exists, it’s still affecting people.

3 December 2020 John Key

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

3 December 2020 Aldrich Ames

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late ’70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency’s impact on American policy.

3 December 2020 Ioan Gruffudd

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

3 December 2020 Irving Howe

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.

3 December 2020 Billy Sunday

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

3 December 2020 Suze Orman

The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it’s always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.

3 December 2020 Charles Darwin

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

3 December 2020 Louis E. Boone

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

3 December 2020 Daniel Radcliffe

I’m not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

3 December 2020 Josh Radnor

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

3 December 2020 Henry Timrod

Each has its lesson for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Krohn

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

3 December 2020 Lenny Kravitz

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I’m this cool, brooding artist. But I’m just having fun with it.

3 December 2020 Libby Houston

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that’s where they stay.

3 December 2020 Louis D. Brandeis

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

3 December 2020 Tom Wopat

When you’re doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there’s a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

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