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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Laurence J. Peter

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

3 December 2020 Charles Dance

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite… what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

3 December 2020 John Adams

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.

3 December 2020 Studs Terkel

I hope for peace and sanity – it’s the same thing.

3 December 2020 Gary Ross

You can’t tell your kids to read if you’re just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it’s important to walk the walk. It’s a wonderful shared time.

3 December 2020 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

3 December 2020 Jim Bunning

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman – bonded together for life – always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.

3 December 2020 David Duchovny

I’ve run into certain geniuses of individualism – they are very few and far between – who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

3 December 2020 Emil Zatopek

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

3 December 2020 Cecily von Ziegesar

I certainly didn’t say while writing ‘Gossip Girl,’ ‘Oh this is going to be big!’ It was really like, ‘Oh god, everyone’s gong to hate these people! They’re so bratty!’ But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.

3 December 2020 J. Robert Oppenheimer

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

3 December 2020 Phyllis Schlafly

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

3 December 2020 Helena Bonham Carter

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don’t really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don’t really have very high, cultured conversations.

3 December 2020 Alex Ferguson

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

3 December 2020 Donny Osmond

It’s a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that’s what it takes to be in show business.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

3 December 2020 David Suzuki

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

3 December 2020 Kelly Osbourne

I feel good in my own skin because I’ve accepted the fact that I’m me. That’s what’s so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody’s different.

3 December 2020 Henny Youngman

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.

3 December 2020 La Monte Young

Let people have an education and you can’t stop them.

3 December 2020 Hank Azaria

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

3 December 2020 H. G. Wells

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

3 December 2020 Russell Pearce

You know, you don’t retreat in the defense of freedom. You don’t retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don’t retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

3 December 2020 Barry McGuire

Marches alone won’t bring integration when human respect is disintegratin’

3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

3 December 2020 Anthony Anderson

It’s sort of an action flick. You can’t be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

3 December 2020 Titus Livius

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

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