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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ashley Scott

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme – it’s taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn’t mean or anything.

3 December 2020 Loretta Swit

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

3 December 2020 Michelle Branch

I think I’m also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

3 December 2020 Seth Lloyd

Something else has happened with computers.

3 December 2020 Richard Lamm

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

3 December 2020 Abigail Adams

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

3 December 2020 Howard Zinn

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

3 December 2020 Hale Irwin

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

3 December 2020 Warren Christopher

The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We’re turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

3 December 2020 Will Ferrell

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

3 December 2020 Matthew Morrison

My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.

3 December 2020 Henry Rollins

You don’t have to twist my arm to work.

3 December 2020 Alfred Adler

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

3 December 2020 Gene Tierney

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

3 December 2020 Walt Disney

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

3 December 2020 Dan Farmer

I was fairly solitary. I didn’t like structured learning. People didn’t seem to be my cup of tea.

3 December 2020 George Carlin

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

3 December 2020 Rebecca West

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

3 December 2020 Jean Paul

Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.

3 December 2020 Gaston Bachelard

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

3 December 2020 Diablo Cody

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that’s human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

3 December 2020 April Winchell

I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.

3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

3 December 2020 Lenny Kravitz

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

3 December 2020 Richard Cecil

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

3 December 2020 Peter O'Toole

I’m the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

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