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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Mary Douglas

Mormons… are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

3 December 2020 Stephen Lewis

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable… and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you’re never going to defeat this pandemic.

3 December 2020 William Petersen

I didn’t want to play a lawyer. I didn’t want to play a doctor. I didn’t want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

3 December 2020 W. C. Fields

Women are like elephants. I like to look at ’em, but I wouldn’t want to own one.

3 December 2020 Yogi Berra

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.

3 December 2020 Simon Pegg

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

3 December 2020 Daniel Libeskind

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

3 December 2020 Gavin Newsom

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

3 December 2020 Shirley MacLaine

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

3 December 2020 Elliot Paul

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.

3 December 2020 Will Rogers

Don’t gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.

3 December 2020 Javier Bardem

I don’t really care where movies come from as long as they’re worth making.

3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

3 December 2020 Teri Garr

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.

3 December 2020 Zsa Zsa Gabor

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

3 December 2020 Al Gore

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I’ve made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I’m enjoying them.

3 December 2020 Washington Irving

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all.

3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’.

3 December 2020 Benny Green

Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching they’ll never be eclipsed.

3 December 2020 David Ogden Stiers

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

3 December 2020 Josh Radnor

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you’re at and you’ll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

3 December 2020 Gilbert White

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

3 December 2020 Michael McCaul

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

3 December 2020 Joshua Foer

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

3 December 2020 Adrienne Rich

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?

3 December 2020 Steve Coogan

I have never wanted to be famous, as such – fame is a by-product.

3 December 2020 Jon Kyl

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help – that they will never be abandoned.

3 December 2020 Barbra Streisand

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

3 December 2020 Doug Coupland

If you don’t have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can’t expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

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