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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Dionne Warwick

I’ve had some incredible moments in my life – thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

3 December 2020 Ice Cube

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don’t wanna move out.

3 December 2020 Barbra Streisand

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

3 December 2020 Billy Corgan

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That’s what critics can’t put their finger on.

3 December 2020 Betty White

I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I’m the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I’m not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I’m just relaxing and enjoying it.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

3 December 2020 Wayne Gretzky

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

3 December 2020 Sophie Ellis-Bextor

On my wedding day. I didn’t want a natural, blushing-bride look – I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath.

3 December 2020 Louis Pasteur

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

3 December 2020 Mikhail Gorbachev

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

3 December 2020 Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

3 December 2020 Vivienne Westwood

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

3 December 2020 Harry Shum, Jr.

I’ve always been a person with patience, and I don’t like to force things.

3 December 2020 A. Whitney Brown

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

3 December 2020 Rebecca West

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person’s mind.

3 December 2020 Michael Bloomberg

Government shouldn’t tell you whom to marry.

3 December 2020 Brittany Murphy

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

3 December 2020 Ted Nugent

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg

Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve ever directed.

3 December 2020 Rebecca Harding Davis

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

3 December 2020 Jean Giraudoux

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

3 December 2020 Shigenori Maruyama

If global cooling will come soon – scientists will lose trust.

3 December 2020 Rupert Murdoch

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

3 December 2020 Orson Welles

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

3 December 2020 Story Musgrave

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it’s hugely different.

3 December 2020 Joseph Addison

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

3 December 2020 John Lithgow

I have a lot of faith in people.

3 December 2020 Youssou N'Dour

I’m a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

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