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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Juliana Hatfield

I don’t really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I’m probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

3 December 2020 Ray Bradbury

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

3 December 2020 Abbie Cornish

I’m one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga

There’s no wrong way to experience a film.

3 December 2020 Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I’ve been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

3 December 2020 Lillian Hellman

Success isn’t everything but it makes a man stand straight.

3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

3 December 2020 Ella Maillart

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

3 December 2020 Paul Twitchell

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

3 December 2020 Isaac Rosenberg

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

3 December 2020 Tanya Tucker

I don’t know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder… I think it’s just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

3 December 2020 Kate Mulgrew

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel – according to the actor’s marriage to the character.

3 December 2020 Carmelo Anthony

With the way everything’s going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

3 December 2020 Ang Lee

I did a women’s movie, and I’m not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I’m not gay. I learned as I went along.

3 December 2020 Henry Beston

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

3 December 2020 Mike Rounds

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

3 December 2020 Phyllis Diller

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

3 December 2020 Charles Kuralt

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn’t have girlfriends, and really I wasn’t a very social boy.

3 December 2020 Andy Milonakis

I had sadness for breakfast.

3 December 2020 Robert Kiyosaki

If you’re working for a good company and you’re happy there, and you’re being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

3 December 2020 Edward Young

The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

3 December 2020 Deepak Chopra

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

3 December 2020 Alfred Nobel

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

3 December 2020 Terry Eagleton

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

3 December 2020 David Brainerd

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

3 December 2020 Esther Williams

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.

3 December 2020 John Moody

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

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