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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Wayne Gretzky

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

3 December 2020 Jerry Lewis

I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

3 December 2020 Prem Rawat

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

3 December 2020 George W. Bush

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

3 December 2020 Jonah Goldberg

I think as – all in all, it’s better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

3 December 2020 Danny Boyle

Movies about space raise those questions of what we’re doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

3 December 2020 Mary MacLane

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

3 December 2020 Tadao Ando

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

3 December 2020 James Anthony Froude

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

3 December 2020 Leland Stanford

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

3 December 2020 Leonardo DiCaprio

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

3 December 2020 Sun Tzu

All war is deception.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

3 December 2020 Johnny Depp

Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.

3 December 2020 Georg Brandes

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

3 December 2020 Joseph Addison

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

3 December 2020 Adam Sandler

I never had a speech from my father ‘this is what you must do or shouldn’t do’ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.

3 December 2020 Jean-Francois Cope

There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That’s considerable in a country that’s used to being protected.

3 December 2020 Joseph Barbera

I hope we don’t get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

3 December 2020 Chris O'Donnell

I think I’m pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don’t have a new car, I drive my old car that I’ve had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.

3 December 2020 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

3 December 2020 Lily Tomlin

Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?

3 December 2020 Peter Fonda

I was famous from birth.

3 December 2020 Margaret Mead

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

3 December 2020 David Antin

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

3 December 2020 Thomas More

To be educated, a person doesn’t have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

3 December 2020 Jon Hamm

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn’t turn down any of that.

3 December 2020 Amy Sedaris

David and Dad didn’t get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn’t going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they’re like best friends.

3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

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