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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Jane Krakowski

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.

3 December 2020 Tim Berners-Lee

I suppose it’s amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don’t work.

3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck

Children make your life important.

3 December 2020 R. Lee Ermey

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

3 December 2020 Shemar Moore

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

3 December 2020 Munshi Premchand

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

3 December 2020 Jane Smiley

I was an only child. I’ve known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

3 December 2020 Frank Langella

Each of us needs something – food, liquor, pot, whatever – to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

3 December 2020 Dave Barry

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

3 December 2020 David Viscott

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert

Listen – of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.

3 December 2020 Amos Oz

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.

3 December 2020 Diane Lane

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

3 December 2020 Mark Kennedy

Few things are more important to each individual’s future success or to our nation’s prosperity than education.

3 December 2020 Barbara Ehrenreich

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

3 December 2020 Harrison Ford

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I’m in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don’t know who they’re talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

3 December 2020 Wislawa Szymborska

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

3 December 2020 Ausonius

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they’re trying to keep out.

3 December 2020 Juliette Binoche

I’ve never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn’t choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

3 December 2020 Freeman A. Hrabowski III

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

3 December 2020 Nick Lampson

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.

3 December 2020 John Henrik Clarke

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

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