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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Clayton Christensen

Each of our children during their high school years went to ‘early morning seminary’ – scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

3 December 2020 Michael Ignatieff

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

3 December 2020 David Ricardo

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

3 December 2020 W. H. Auden

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Moon

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can’t really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

3 December 2020 Desiderius Erasmus

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

3 December 2020 Jean M. Auel

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I’m not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

3 December 2020 Billie Joe Armstrong

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don’t even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don’t like it.

3 December 2020 Olympia Snowe

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

3 December 2020 Lynda Barry

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

3 December 2020 Kevin Bacon

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

3 December 2020 James Madison

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

3 December 2020 Billy Connolly

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

3 December 2020 Harrison Ford

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you’ve lost human scale.

3 December 2020 Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Power is the ability to get things done.

3 December 2020 Alvin Toffler

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

3 December 2020 David Hockney

I’m interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

3 December 2020 Jack Kemp

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

3 December 2020 Bill Walton

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

3 December 2020 Kim Cattrall

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

3 December 2020 Angelina Jolie

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

3 December 2020 Tom Petty

I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

3 December 2020 Dennis Rodman

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

3 December 2020 DMX

Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.

3 December 2020 Camille Paglia

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

3 December 2020 Albert Claude

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

The secret of food lies in memory – of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

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