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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Kiefer Sutherland

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

3 December 2020 Spike Milligan

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

3 December 2020 Lauren Graham

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn’t want to be in the wrong one.

3 December 2020 Sofia Coppola

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He’d be a good film professor.

3 December 2020 Tim Vine

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me ‘Can you give me a lift?’ I said ‘Sure, you look great, the world’s your oyster, go for it.”

3 December 2020 Alexander Haig

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

3 December 2020 Arnold H. Glasow

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.

3 December 2020 Patricia Neal

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

3 December 2020 Mark Warner

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

3 December 2020 John Shelby Spong

Religion is a mixed blessing.

3 December 2020 Salvador Dali

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

3 December 2020 Matt Czuchry

I’m enjoying dating. I’m single, though, I’m not in a relationship.

3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley

The music I do is food… that will be your dinner.

3 December 2020 John Sununu

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

3 December 2020 Donald Norman

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

3 December 2020 Eddie Van Halen

We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.

3 December 2020 Hal Borland

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

3 December 2020 Marco Rubio

You know that big government doesn’t hurt big corporations. They’ve got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It’s the little guys.

3 December 2020 Lee Greenwood

At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.

3 December 2020 Jon Meacham

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

3 December 2020 Malcolm X

You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.

3 December 2020 Richard Le Gallienne

A wholesome oblivion of one’s neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

3 December 2020 Robert Casey

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

3 December 2020 Mary Astell

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

3 December 2020 Craig Ferguson

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

3 December 2020 E. B. White

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.

3 December 2020 Emil Zatopek

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

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