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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Marcel Proust

Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

3 December 2020 Sylvia Sidney

Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.

3 December 2020 will.i.am

I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, ‘One day I’m going to buy you a house.’ And she said, ‘Boy, don’t you be making promises you can’t keep.’ I was like: ‘No, Ma, it’s not a promise. I’m going to buy you a house one day.’

3 December 2020 Tim Reid

When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I’m trying to determine who’s leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.

3 December 2020 Jared Padalecki

Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car.

3 December 2020 Regina King

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

3 December 2020 Franklin P. Adams

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.

3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

3 December 2020 Thomas Merton

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

3 December 2020 Arthur Henderson

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order… between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

3 December 2020 Magnus Carlsen

I don’t look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

3 December 2020 Donald Berwick

We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.

3 December 2020 Tucker Carlson

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter’s kindergarten class.

3 December 2020 Brigham Young

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.

3 December 2020 Earl Nightingale

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

3 December 2020 Gene Wolfe

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

3 December 2020 Maurice Gibb

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu’s mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.

3 December 2020 Ben Jonson

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

3 December 2020 Michael Berryman

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you’re going to repeat it and if you’re burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don’t get it, you’re missing the whole point.

3 December 2020 Kinky Friedman

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

3 December 2020 Lech Walesa

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

3 December 2020 John Quincy Adams

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

3 December 2020 Jean-Francois Lyotard

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

3 December 2020 Francois Hollande

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

3 December 2020 Jack Prelutsky

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

3 December 2020 Hans Urs von Balthasar

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

3 December 2020 Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

3 December 2020 Roland Barthes

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

3 December 2020 Erich Fromm

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

3 December 2020 Jon Huntsman, Jr.

In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records – which was a major step in getting costs out of the system.

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