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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ed Bradley

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

3 December 2020 Francis Parkman

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

3 December 2020 Emily Watson

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I’m in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

3 December 2020 Oscar Niemeyer

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

3 December 2020 Rod Taylor

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

3 December 2020 Rick Perry

America’s greatness is not found in the size of its government. America’s greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

3 December 2020 Coretta Scott King

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

3 December 2020 Alexander Hamilton

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Contrary to popular opinion, things don’t go stale particularly fast in the art world.

3 December 2020 Hilary Duff

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It’s really funny the way that some people don’t give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.

3 December 2020 Javier Bardem

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there’s a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

3 December 2020 Tori Spelling

I want to be a mom who listens.

3 December 2020 Ed Helms

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme’s ‘More Than Words’ at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

3 December 2020 Bill Parcells

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -‘Fix it’- whether it’s their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

3 December 2020 Plato

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

3 December 2020 Jacques Barzun

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

3 December 2020 Willie Stargell

There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

3 December 2020 Susan Wojcicki

Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don’t need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.

3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

3 December 2020 Eric Bana

If you’re lucky enough to be involved in a film that’s about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years’ time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.

3 December 2020 Taylor Caldwell

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

3 December 2020 Thomas Paine

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

3 December 2020 Ruby Dee

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

3 December 2020 Jean-Pierre Raffarin

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

3 December 2020 James P. Hoffa

We’ve got to keep an eye on the battle that we face – a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there’s only one way to beat and win that war – the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.

3 December 2020 Tab Hunter

I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

3 December 2020 Felicity Jones

Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It’s been a case of learning on the job. I’ve worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I’ve picked bits up from everyone and everything.

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