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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

3 December 2020 Tippi Hedren

So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.

3 December 2020 Gordon Strachan

Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.

3 December 2020 Gavin Newsom

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

3 December 2020 John Astin

People are smarter than you might think.

3 December 2020 Andy Murray

I’m definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

3 December 2020 Mehmet Oz

It’s difficult to love someone you don’t respect, which is hard to remember when you’re having an argument.

3 December 2020 Neil Peart

To get nostalgic about other people’s music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

3 December 2020 Doris Lessing

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

3 December 2020 Norman MacCaig

All those authors there, most of whom of course I’ve never met. That’s the poetry side, that’s the prose side, that’s the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you’ve enjoyed.

3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian

Know or listen to those who know.

3 December 2020 Rick Moody

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

3 December 2020 Billy Graham

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

3 December 2020 Rudyard Kipling

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

3 December 2020 Amy Winehouse

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Arden

Hold fast to youth and beauty.

3 December 2020 Louis XIV

It is legal because I wish it.

3 December 2020 Tokugawa Ieyasu

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

3 December 2020 Alan Dershowitz

I don’t believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

3 December 2020 Julie Christie

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it’s an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

3 December 2020 Hal Sparks

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists – the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people – tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn’t exist.

3 December 2020 Bill Mumy

I have great respect for directors who know what they’re doing.

3 December 2020 Tim Robbins

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you’re afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

3 December 2020 Kenneth Lay

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

3 December 2020 Annie Lennox

Women’s issues have always been a part of my life.

3 December 2020 Ron Paul

1913 wasn’t a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

3 December 2020 Rick Ross

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

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