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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

3 December 2020 Alton Brown

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

3 December 2020 Leon Kass

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

3 December 2020 Bill Moyers

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.

3 December 2020 Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

3 December 2020 Silvia Colloca

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don’t make eye contact, the guys won’t come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

3 December 2020 Friedrich August von Hayek

This means that to entrust to science – or to deliberate control according to scientific principles – more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

3 December 2020 Richard H. Baker

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

3 December 2020 Bruce Barton

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

3 December 2020 Camille Paglia

Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

3 December 2020 Rita Rudner

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.

3 December 2020 Russell Page

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

3 December 2020 Nicholas Stern

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

3 December 2020 Lou Holtz

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

3 December 2020 Alexander the Great

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

3 December 2020 Diane Duane

Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.

3 December 2020 Justin Timberlake

I’m very thankful to be doing what I’m doing. I feel very blessed.

3 December 2020 Haile Gebrselassie

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn’t feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

3 December 2020 Oren Peli

I’ve never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

3 December 2020 John von Neumann

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

3 December 2020 Joyce Carol Oates

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one’s willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

3 December 2020 Kent Conrad

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

3 December 2020 Carol Gilligan

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

3 December 2020 Lee Iacocca

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.

3 December 2020 David Byrne

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It’s really only to be heard when everyone’s out enjoying it.

3 December 2020 Greg Anderson

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

3 December 2020 Rebecca De Mornay

It’s a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We’re more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

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