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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Louise Jameson

I’m hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career – they are so fun and witty.

3 December 2020 Joseph Beuys

Let’s talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included… something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It’s a Gigantic project.

3 December 2020 Jenson Button

In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don’t see the need to shout my mouth off in public.

3 December 2020 Floyd Abrams

It’s not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt

When you play, play hard when you work, don’t play at all.

3 December 2020 Jack Vance

But I’m so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it’s just so slow, I’m so terribly slow using it.

3 December 2020 John Stossel

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don’t.

3 December 2020 Alvin Ailey

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

3 December 2020 Dan Savage

The cultural expectation should be if there’s infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

3 December 2020 Kofi Annan

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

3 December 2020 Taslima Nasrin

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

3 December 2020 Lauryn Hill

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

3 December 2020 Emma Roberts

I’ve always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I’d put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.

3 December 2020 Lil Wayne

I’m blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.

3 December 2020 John James Audubon

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness.

3 December 2020 John Heywood

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Edwards

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

3 December 2020 Miguel de Unamuno

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

3 December 2020 Kurt Busch

I feel like we’re a very good top-10 car, but we really have to work hard and find a unique way to get these top fives.

3 December 2020 Karl A. Menninger

What’s done to children, they will do to society.

3 December 2020 Marlene Dietrich

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

3 December 2020 William Hague

I don’t deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

3 December 2020 Nikos Kazantzakis

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

3 December 2020 Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When love is not madness, it is not love.

3 December 2020 Michelle Bachelet

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

3 December 2020 Josh Radnor

I learned a lesson which I didn’t heed: Don’t put yourself in your movies. It’s too much.

3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

3 December 2020 Camillo di Cavour

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

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