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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Jonathan Krohn

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

3 December 2020 Bill Budge

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

3 December 2020 Frank McCourt

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks’ Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

3 December 2020 Judy Collins

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

3 December 2020 James Beattie

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

3 December 2020 G. I. Gurdjieff

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

3 December 2020 William Hedgcock Webster

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

3 December 2020 Murray Walker

If you don’t trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldn’t be doing the job for you.

3 December 2020 Barbara Kruger

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston

I’m an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

3 December 2020 Audrey Hepburn

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda

It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

3 December 2020 David Miliband

And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.

3 December 2020 Christopher Morley

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

3 December 2020 Bob Dylan

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

3 December 2020 Aaron Carter

I would forgive my mom, but she’s going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

3 December 2020 Omar Bongo

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

3 December 2020 Cory Doctorow

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

3 December 2020 Oliver Stone

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

3 December 2020 Bill Moyers

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

3 December 2020 Ray Dalio

There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That’s a beautiful deleveraging.

3 December 2020 Bill Gates

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.

3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

3 December 2020 Billie Jean King

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

3 December 2020 Erich von Stroheim

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

3 December 2020 Ray Dalio

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don’t know what the future is going to hold.

3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof

I read Freud’s Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

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