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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Donna Shalala

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

3 December 2020 George Will

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

3 December 2020 Jenna Bush

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

3 December 2020 Ivor Novello

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

3 December 2020 Robert Anthony

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

3 December 2020 Gerrit Smith

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

3 December 2020 Rachel Roy

I’m a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

3 December 2020 Edouard Manet

I would kiss you, had I the courage.

3 December 2020 Alexander Calder

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.

3 December 2020 Lisa Marie Presley

If I’m alone too long I think too much, and I’m not interested in doing that. That won’t lead anywhere good, I’m sure. If I’m busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil’s playground.

3 December 2020 Willa Cather

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

3 December 2020 Wynton Marsalis

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

3 December 2020 Jon Meacham

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn’t work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won’t work for you either.

3 December 2020 Rio Ferdinand

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

3 December 2020 John Sununu

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

3 December 2020 Eddie Cantor

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

3 December 2020 Nicole Kidman

I have a different approach. I don’t file lawsuits because I really don’t care.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

A man growing old becomes a child again.

3 December 2020 Maxwell Maltz

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

3 December 2020 Martin Freeman

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I’m concerned.

3 December 2020 Patti Davis

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

3 December 2020 Steve Kanaly

I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there’s a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.

3 December 2020 Jack Kerouac

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

3 December 2020 Jean-Luc Godard

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

3 December 2020 Robert Duvall

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can’t predict.

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