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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

3 December 2020 Spike Lee

Violence is a part of America. I don’t want to single out rap music. Let’s be honest. America’s the most violent country in the history of the world, that’s just the way it is. We’re all affected by it.

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

3 December 2020 Dave Chappelle

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you’re gonna have to realize your failures. You’re gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

3 December 2020 John W. Gardner

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Mayhew

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Garner

My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.

3 December 2020 Buffalo Bill

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

3 December 2020 Herodotus

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

3 December 2020 Katy Perry

I’m not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I’m happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

3 December 2020 Michael Mandelbaum

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America’s past success are still here to be tapped.

3 December 2020 Larry Elder

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He’s a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn’t speak to him for 10 years.

3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

3 December 2020 Matt Damon

If your movies don’t perform, they just stop calling you.

3 December 2020 Paul Valery

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

3 December 2020 Neil Young

The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

3 December 2020 Richard Roeper

Wal-Mart doesn’t really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

3 December 2020 Dido Armstrong

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn’t have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

3 December 2020 Bill Maher

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

3 December 2020 Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

3 December 2020 Malcolm Mclaren

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Lopez

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.

3 December 2020 Randall Terry

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.

3 December 2020 George Whitefield

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

3 December 2020 Jack Henry Abbott

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

3 December 2020 Robert Frost

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

3 December 2020 C. Northcote Parkinson

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

3 December 2020 Bear Grylls

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy – nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

3 December 2020 Todd English

Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little ‘off the beaten trail,’ but cool area.

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