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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

3 December 2020 Felix Bloch

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

3 December 2020 Lewis Thomas

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one’s own genes in the generations to follow.

3 December 2020 Ryan Tedder

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it’s there forever.

3 December 2020 Sumner Redstone

Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

3 December 2020 Dorothy Fields

The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

3 December 2020 Bubba Watson

My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain’t fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

3 December 2020 Chris Cooper

I’ve got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

3 December 2020 Ezra Pound

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It’s listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

3 December 2020 Robert Morgan

I don’t think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

3 December 2020 Frederic Bastiat

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

3 December 2020 Michel Martelly

It’s time for Haitians to have access to health care. It’s time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It’s time to open our country to potential investors.

3 December 2020 Cat Deeley

I just don’t crave junk food.

3 December 2020 Johannes Tauler

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually… even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

3 December 2020 Malin Akerman

Turns out, I couldn’t catch them – or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

3 December 2020 Napolean Hill

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

3 December 2020 Ryan Seacrest

Trust me, if I were gay I’d be getting more action than I’m getting now.

3 December 2020 John Conyers

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

3 December 2020 Dirk Benedict

It helps to be able to be alone. ‘Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don’t do that. Ask my ex-wife.

3 December 2020 Dwight L. Moody

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

3 December 2020 Larry Hagman

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

3 December 2020 George Santayana

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

3 December 2020 Basil Bunting

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

3 December 2020 Oscar De La Hoya

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

3 December 2020 Willie Nelson

I’m a romantic slob!

3 December 2020 Kato Kaelin

At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn’t really see fighting.

3 December 2020 Shelley Berman

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

3 December 2020 Tom Vilsack

Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I’m conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.

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