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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure.

3 December 2020 William Temple

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

3 December 2020 Busy Philipps

Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I’m having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don’t get them I’m disappointed.

3 December 2020 David Schwimmer

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

3 December 2020 Margaret Mead

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

3 December 2020 Will Rogers

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

3 December 2020 Douglas Trumbull

There’s a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

3 December 2020 Jerry Garcia

I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money’s the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

3 December 2020 Ville Valo

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

3 December 2020 Bede Jarrett

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.

3 December 2020 John Acton

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

3 December 2020 Bernadine Dohrn

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

3 December 2020 Jane D. Hull

It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.

3 December 2020 Oscar Hammerstein II

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

3 December 2020 Anne Hathaway

Quite frankly, I didn’t become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

3 December 2020 Deepak Chopra

You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

3 December 2020 Jean Anouilh

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

3 December 2020 Mena Suvari

A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.

3 December 2020 Todd Barry

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there’s never a need to erase.

3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.

3 December 2020 Robert Half

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it’s only kept a secret from the person who fails.

3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

3 December 2020 Roger Federer

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

3 December 2020 Kenneth Scott Latourette

The most that one of Jewish faith can do – and some have gladly done it – is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.

3 December 2020 Spike Lee

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it’s not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

3 December 2020 Robert Kirkman

I know there are a lot of readers that think I’ve got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there’s really nothing that’s been like a mirror. I’m just making this stuff up.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

3 December 2020 John O. Brennan

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

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