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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Jason Biggs

Like anyone who goes to college, you’re leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you’re starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

3 December 2020 Robert Orben

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.

3 December 2020 John le Carre

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

3 December 2020 Caroline Wozniacki

I’d like to do a lot of things – whether in design or architecture or business.

3 December 2020 Nancy Chodorow

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

3 December 2020 Leighton Meester

When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that’s what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.

3 December 2020 Jerry Hall

We used to go to Studio 54 – an amazing place.

3 December 2020 Thomas Paine

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

3 December 2020 Napoleon Hill

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

3 December 2020 David K. Shipler

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy’s great disinfectant and cure.

3 December 2020 Sidney Poitier

So I’m OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn’t always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It’s your experience and your observation.

3 December 2020 William P. Young

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

3 December 2020 Jane Goodall

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

3 December 2020 Thomas Dekker

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

3 December 2020 Dakota Fanning

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it’s all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

3 December 2020 Walt Whitman

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

3 December 2020 Karen McDougal

I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.

3 December 2020 Candace Bushnell

Like it or not, in the end, it’s one’s body. It’s literally what carries you through life. There’s a reason for the saying, ‘If you have your health, you have everything,’ and it’s true. Old age, disease – these are the great equalizers.

3 December 2020 Edwin Louis Cole

Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.

3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

3 December 2020 Michael Scheuer

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

3 December 2020 Nick Cave

I’m a believer. I don’t go to church. I don’t belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn’t write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

3 December 2020 David Walliams

I know somebody from university who’s called Phil Collins and I think there’s something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.

3 December 2020 Jose Marti

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin

People can cry much easier than they can change.

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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