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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Marvin Minsky

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

3 December 2020 Freeman Dyson

It’s better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

3 December 2020 Lech Walesa

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

3 December 2020 Picabo Street

But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I’ve been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.

3 December 2020 Christine Baranski

I’m sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey

Each child is an adventure into a better life – an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

3 December 2020 John Malkovich

Failure’s a natural part of life.

3 December 2020 Phil Knight

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

3 December 2020 Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

3 December 2020 Earl Warren

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

3 December 2020 Ice Cube

I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

3 December 2020 Noah Webster

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

3 December 2020 Sarah Palin

America’s finest – our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

3 December 2020 Jennie Garth

I love kids and children, and I love being a mom.

3 December 2020 Jorge Luis Borges

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

3 December 2020 Derek Jeter

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

3 December 2020 Chris Brown

I’m not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don’t think it’ll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.

3 December 2020 Bill Parcells

So if the players trust the coach, it’s not a problem. If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

3 December 2020 Enya

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial it was something very personal to me.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

3 December 2020 Nathalie Sarraute

One can’t write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don’t like poetry.

3 December 2020 Mary Cheney

It won’t take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

3 December 2020 George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

3 December 2020 Aleksander Kwasniewski

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

3 December 2020 Mia Love

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

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