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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 David Byrne

I don’t like begging money from producers.

3 December 2020 Tecumseh

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

3 December 2020 Thomas Paine

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

3 December 2020 Leighton Meester

I couldn’t relate to kid stuff. ‘Jimmy doesn’t like me!’ Who cares? I was worried we didn’t have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

3 December 2020 Lasse Hallstrom

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

3 December 2020 Jose Mourinho

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

3 December 2020 Roone Arledge

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don’t respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

3 December 2020 Salvador Dali

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

3 December 2020 Jamie Farr

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

3 December 2020 Brit Marling

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

3 December 2020 C. Northcote Parkinson

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

3 December 2020 Patrick Wilson

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it’s interesting.

3 December 2020 Arthur Wellesley

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

3 December 2020 Brooks Adams

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

3 December 2020 Conrad Black

There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I’m not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

3 December 2020 Richard Thompson

It’s amazing what some people read into songs.

3 December 2020 Thabo Mbeki

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

3 December 2020 John Templeton

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don’t know much more about soul than he did.

3 December 2020 Imran Khan

They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

3 December 2020 David Frum

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

3 December 2020 Peter McWilliams

To overcome a fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

3 December 2020 Catherine the Great

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

3 December 2020 Diane Abbott

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

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