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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Beth Ditto

I’ve had people ask me in interviews what it’s like to have money, but that’s not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

3 December 2020 Sidney Lanier

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

3 December 2020 Henry Miller

Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

3 December 2020 Shakira

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.

3 December 2020 Joichi Ito

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

3 December 2020 Eva Herzigova

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

3 December 2020 Anita Roddick

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don’t tend to support big agencies.

3 December 2020 Adam Osborne

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don’t realize are computers at all.

3 December 2020 Thucydides

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

3 December 2020 Stendhal

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

3 December 2020 Lewis B. Smedes

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

3 December 2020 Kevin J. Anderson

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

3 December 2020 Shaun White

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

3 December 2020 Deepak Chopra

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

3 December 2020 Rip Torn

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

3 December 2020 Michelle Pfeiffer

I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I’ve been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I’ve tried to do landscapes a few times.

3 December 2020 Woody Guthrie

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

3 December 2020 Mike Fitzpatrick

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

3 December 2020 Sidney Poitier

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

3 December 2020 Steven Biko

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation – being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

3 December 2020 Walter Annenberg

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

3 December 2020 William S. Burroughs

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

3 December 2020 Barbara Kruger

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It’s scary.

3 December 2020 Wangari Maathai

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

3 December 2020 Stephen Gardiner

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.

3 December 2020 Janis Ian

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

3 December 2020 Joseph Joubert

Justice is the truth in action.

3 December 2020 Bill Hicks

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know one child with a full time job and children.

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