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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Donna Shalala

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It’s not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

3 December 2020 Adam Osborne

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don’t understand computers.

3 December 2020 Karl Popper

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

3 December 2020 Jena Malone

Adolescence isn’t just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

3 December 2020 Nadine Gordimer

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

3 December 2020 Chris Evans

I don’t know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

3 December 2020 Georgia O'Keeffe

The days you work are the best days.

3 December 2020 Jalal Talabani

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

3 December 2020 Nikolai Gogol

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

3 December 2020 James Chanos

It’s very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

3 December 2020 Doug E. Fresh

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

3 December 2020 Louise Brown

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

3 December 2020 Lewis Thomas

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

3 December 2020 Jane Seymour

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.

3 December 2020 Bernard Williams

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

3 December 2020 Gavin DeGraw

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

3 December 2020 Helen Rowland

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can’t be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

3 December 2020 Josh Billings

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

3 December 2020 Walter Mosley

When you deal with a person who’s experiencing dementia, you can see where they’re struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they’re trying to remember.

3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

3 December 2020 Maya Angelou

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

3 December 2020 George Hickenlooper

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

3 December 2020 Laurieann Gibson

I dance but I also work out. I run, do strength training… you name it. I’ve got to!

3 December 2020 William Styron

Reading – the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

3 December 2020 Norman Vincent Peale

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

3 December 2020 Emma Goldman

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

3 December 2020 Vladimir Lenin

Sometimes – history needs a push.

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