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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Nicolaus Copernicus

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

3 December 2020 Michael J. Fox

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

3 December 2020 John Locke

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

3 December 2020 Dave Barry

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

3 December 2020 Rashida Jones

I’m friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn’t just get into it. I don’t think you can be friends until you’re cool with them dating someone else. That’s when you know.

3 December 2020 Dorothea Lange

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

3 December 2020 Sydney Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

3 December 2020 Ansel Adams

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

3 December 2020 Dee Brown

I’ve tried word processors, but I think I’m too old a dog to use one.

3 December 2020 Lisa Loeb

When someone asks if you’d like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

3 December 2020 Len Wein

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you’re halfway home.

3 December 2020 Brad Pitt

I don’t feel restless, I just like to travel.

3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams

I mean, my dad’s a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn’t exactly what I wanted to do.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

3 December 2020 Antonio Banderas

I wouldn’t want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I’m terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

3 December 2020 Samuel Adams

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

3 December 2020 Jim Goad

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

3 December 2020 Harry Dean Stanton

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.

3 December 2020 Phillip E. Johnson

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

3 December 2020 Michael Pollan

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

3 December 2020 John Updike

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

3 December 2020 Lee Atwater

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

3 December 2020 Abigail Adams

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

3 December 2020 Werner Heisenberg

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

3 December 2020 Satyajit Ray

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

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