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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Harry Styles

A lot of the time, the way it’s portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

3 December 2020 Herbert Gold

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

3 December 2020 George Carlin

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

3 December 2020 George S. Patton

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr.

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I’m visiting.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

3 December 2020 Ludacris

I’ve always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Rifkin

What’s different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That’s what makes it both powerful and exciting.

3 December 2020 Indira Gandhi

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.

3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem

If you say, I’m for equal pay, that’s a reform. But if you say. I’m a feminist, that’s a transformation of society.

3 December 2020 Les Aspin

There’s a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration’s problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

3 December 2020 Louisa May Alcott

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable.

3 December 2020 Angela Merkel

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

3 December 2020 Red Auerbach

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

3 December 2020 Daniel Webster

Keep cool anger is not an argument.

3 December 2020 Star Jones

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson

Over the years my mother’s steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.

3 December 2020 Thomas Friedman

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

3 December 2020 Fiona Apple

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

3 December 2020 Wallace Shawn

In terms of number of movies, I’ve been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I’m onscreen, it’s not so long.

3 December 2020 Robert Morgan

I think that it’s more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

3 December 2020 Yoko Ono

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

3 December 2020 Andy Serkis

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre it’s just another way of recording an actor’s performance.

3 December 2020 Shirley MacLaine

Things are done according to money these days.

3 December 2020 Amelia Barr

Old age is the verdict of life.

3 December 2020 Georges Bataille

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

The words of truth are simple.

3 December 2020 Pearl Bailey

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

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