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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Juvenal

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

3 December 2020 Dennis Kucinich

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It’s a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

3 December 2020 Portia de Rossi

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn’t really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I’m gay know.

3 December 2020 Victoria Pratt

I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it’s quick action and no fear, and sometimes it’s irrational fear. You don’t always know.

3 December 2020 Anatoly Chubais

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn’t have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

3 December 2020 John W. Gardner

America’s greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

3 December 2020 John Burroughs

I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

3 December 2020 Henry Rollins

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

3 December 2020 Mo Rocca

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don’t know when to come down.

3 December 2020 Roland Emmerich

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

3 December 2020 Wangari Maathai

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

3 December 2020 Bernard Baruch

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

3 December 2020 Andy Summers

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

3 December 2020 Donna Rice

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary’s invitation, I agreed to see him one last time – to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

3 December 2020 David Coverdale

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein

I’d never made a teen comedy in my life.

3 December 2020 Albert Brooks

I’d still like to see ‘Survivor’ minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business – I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else’s foot.

3 December 2020 Queen Latifah

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

3 December 2020 Ethel Barrymore

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

3 December 2020 Todd Barry

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

3 December 2020 Agnes Martin

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

3 December 2020 April Greiman

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

3 December 2020 Ovid

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

3 December 2020 Bob Ehrlich

Some of the most important conversations I’ve ever had occurred at my family’s dinner table.

3 December 2020 Hugh Jackman

I once sang ‘Summer Nights,’ from ‘Grease,’ at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who’s a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny – sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar – while I got stuck playing Sandy.

3 December 2020 Don DeLillo

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

3 December 2020 Greta Gerwig

I had dreams, but I didn’t have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

3 December 2020 Helmut Jahn

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

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