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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka

But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.

3 December 2020 Glenn Beck

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.

3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

3 December 2020 Jorge Luis Borges

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

3 December 2020 Alton Brown

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

3 December 2020 Mikhail Baryshnikov

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

3 December 2020 Jermaine Jackson

I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration – everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.

3 December 2020 Joseph Roux

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

3 December 2020 Elliott Erwitt

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.

3 December 2020 Anita Ekberg

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

3 December 2020 W. H. Auden

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

3 December 2020 Vincent D'Onofrio

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

3 December 2020 Marc Garneau

I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.

3 December 2020 Katy Perry

If you like my music, great, and if you don’t, whatever. I’m going to keep making it either way.

3 December 2020 Molly Sims

I think I’ve done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it’s weird: I’m thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don’t obsess about it.

3 December 2020 Alvin Dark

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That’s baseball as it should be played – in God’s own sunshine. And that’s really living.

3 December 2020 Evan Esar

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

3 December 2020 Juan Goytisolo

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

3 December 2020 Maria Bartiromo

Too many people say to their brokers, I can’t deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That’s the worst attitude you can have.

3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

3 December 2020 Emilio Estevez

There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug – not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.

3 December 2020 Vernon A. Walters

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don’t, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

3 December 2020 Chris Pratt

The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. ‘Bridesmaids’ is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as ‘Bad Teacher.’

3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

3 December 2020 Norman Vincent Peale

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

3 December 2020 Frida Kahlo

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

3 December 2020 Laurel Clark

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I’m thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

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