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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Sloane Crosley

Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.

3 December 2020 Ted Nugent

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

3 December 2020 Jean Pigozzi

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

3 December 2020 John W. Gardner

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

3 December 2020 Pete Best

Many things have been said about what happened, but I don’t know either. Maybe someday. One thing I’m sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.

3 December 2020 Tom Osborne

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

3 December 2020 Kristin Kreuk

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I’d write letters and go ‘Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you’re doing something.’

3 December 2020 Bill Dana

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

3 December 2020 Eldridge Cleaver

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

3 December 2020 Michael N. Castle

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

3 December 2020 Ryszard Kapuscinski

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

Morality is contraband in war.

3 December 2020 Jet Li

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It’s very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

3 December 2020 Mason Cooley

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

3 December 2020 Thomas Paine

Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.

3 December 2020 Alexander Henry

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

3 December 2020 Harrison Salisbury

The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let’s see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that’s a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

3 December 2020 Jon Stewart

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we’re in a battle between tyranny and freedom – it’s a series of pendulum swings.

3 December 2020 K. Eric Drexler

Any powerful technology can be abused.

3 December 2020 Albert Schweitzer

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

3 December 2020 Robert Rodriguez

Everyone applauds each other’s success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

3 December 2020 Carly Fiorina

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that’s just the way the real world is.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

3 December 2020 Mitch Hedberg

I love blackjack. But I’m not addicted to gambling. I’m addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

3 December 2020 Bill Gates

People everywhere love Windows.

3 December 2020 Suzanne Farrell

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

3 December 2020 Maggie Kuhn

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

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