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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

3 December 2020 Robert Pattinson

Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I’m like, ‘Whoa, I’m so cool.’

3 December 2020 Catherine Helen Spence

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

3 December 2020 Katy Perry

I’ve done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

3 December 2020 Camille Paglia

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

3 December 2020 Anthony Trollope

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

3 December 2020 Chuck Klosterman

If you’re doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you’re not going to have a relationship with them, they’re not going to like you, they’re not going to be your friend.

3 December 2020 Robert Orben

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.

3 December 2020 James Madison

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

3 December 2020 Euripides

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

3 December 2020 Tyrone Power

I’ve done an awful lot of stuff that’s a monument to public patience.

3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

3 December 2020 Henny Youngman

When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

3 December 2020 Billy Joel

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Hacker

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

3 December 2020 Alan Watts

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.

3 December 2020 David Duchovny

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

3 December 2020 Jennifer O'Neill

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

3 December 2020 Mira Sorvino

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

3 December 2020 George Santayana

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

3 December 2020 Cofer Black

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

3 December 2020 Carl Rogers

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

3 December 2020 Sai Baba

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt

World history is tragic.

3 December 2020 Cass Sunstein

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

3 December 2020 Craig Ferguson

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word ‘existentialism.’

3 December 2020 Juliette Binoche

It’s never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

3 December 2020 Mehmet Oz

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

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