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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Layne Staley

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we’ve grown and are learning to accommodate each others’ differences.

3 December 2020 Jim Sensenbrenner

Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

3 December 2020 Siouxsie Sioux

I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want – but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

3 December 2020 Horace Mann

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.

3 December 2020 Steve Martin

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there’s a lot of bluegrass there.

3 December 2020 Henri Poincare

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

3 December 2020 Doris Lessing

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don’t.

3 December 2020 Alexandre Dumas

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

3 December 2020 Stevie Nicks

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

3 December 2020 Danny Elfman

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you’re going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.

3 December 2020 Jenny Eclair

What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I don’t want to do things on the Internet.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.

3 December 2020 Nicholas Sparks

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

3 December 2020 Thad Cochran

Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don’t overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.

3 December 2020 Tom Holt

New technology is useful, but it’s inefficient and ugly it knows it’ll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

3 December 2020 Albrecht Durer

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

3 December 2020 Alice Walker

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

3 December 2020 Vince Flynn

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don’t stay positive, you don’t do well.

3 December 2020 Evan Bayh

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

3 December 2020 Saadi

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

3 December 2020 Tori Amos

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

3 December 2020 Nigel Lythgoe

There’s no question ‘Amazing Race’ is a beautifully produced show.

3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

3 December 2020 William Osler

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

3 December 2020 Red Adair

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody’s face when you’re finished and packing, it’s the best smile in the world and there’s nobody hurt, and the well’s under control.

3 December 2020 Tim Cahill

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn’t travel, I would still write.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

3 December 2020 Michel Hazanavicius

I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they’ll be screened on phones, on computers – on everything.

3 December 2020 Naguib Mahfouz

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

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