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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Gennaro Angiulo

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

3 December 2020 Caleb Carr

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

3 December 2020 Michael Pollan

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

3 December 2020 Mira Nair

I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I’ve done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.

3 December 2020 LeAnn Rimes

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren’t. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn’t think… so that’s where it kind of is funny.

3 December 2020 Lisa Bonet

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the ’60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

3 December 2020 Chris Christie

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don’t trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

3 December 2020 Tori Spelling

You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.

3 December 2020 Dave Van Ronk

You can’t be afraid of failure and you can’t be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

3 December 2020 John Ensign

Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?

3 December 2020 Joseph Prince

Laughter is God’s blessing.

3 December 2020 Paul Harris

One’s religion is one’s own possession and he has a right to it.

3 December 2020 Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

3 December 2020 David Limbaugh

Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.

3 December 2020 Laura Linney

You know when someone’s over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can’t believe it.

3 December 2020 Nathan Fillion

Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

3 December 2020 Roger Staubach

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don’t service that car well, the customer won’t return.

3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can’t come up with real lasting solutions!

3 December 2020 Plato

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

3 December 2020 Tom Hardy

Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we’re all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I’m really grateful for it, I don’t believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?

3 December 2020 Max Eastman

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

3 December 2020 James Brown

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever ’cause he believed in God.

3 December 2020 Tony Scott

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

3 December 2020 Natasha Henstridge

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.

3 December 2020 Paulina Porizkova

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is always willing to be little.

3 December 2020 Bob Dylan

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

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