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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 J. William Fulbright

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

3 December 2020 Vin Diesel

You get a timeless cool card in New York.

3 December 2020 W. C. Fields

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

3 December 2020 Sargent Shriver

I don’t have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

3 December 2020 Josh Radnor

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

3 December 2020 Rufus Sewell

Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it’s going to collapse on his head.

3 December 2020 Jupiter Hammon

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

3 December 2020 Theodore Bikel

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn’t doing.

3 December 2020 Michelle Pfeiffer

I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what’s going to be happening at any given moment.

3 December 2020 Henning Mankell

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

3 December 2020 Denis Waitley

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

3 December 2020 Suze Orman

To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don’t charge a commission when you buy or sell.

3 December 2020 John C. Maxwell

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

3 December 2020 Richard Meier

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

3 December 2020 Peter Steele

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it’s motivational. I like old heavy metal when I’m outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

3 December 2020 Graham Greene

Failure too is a form of death.

3 December 2020 Paul Stanley

When you start fooling around with drugs, you’re hurting your creativity, you’re hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don’t kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul’s dead, you’ve got nothing to offer, anyway.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

3 December 2020 Mike Shinoda

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They’ve thought of the steps that you’re going to think of when you’re trying to create your thing. And that’s where the tools get invented to make better art.

3 December 2020 Jim Ramstad

America’s veterans deserve the very best health care because they’ve earned it.

3 December 2020 Michael Strahan

This acting’s serious! And I really respect those actors. It’s a tough business to be able to be something you’re not and be natural and convince people on camera.

3 December 2020 Jenna Fischer

I’ve had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.

3 December 2020 Tom Hooper

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

3 December 2020 Jeremy London

I don’t need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

3 December 2020 Taisen Deshimaru

Think with your whole body.

3 December 2020 Chubby Checker

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the ’60s. It’s just an amazing thing. I can’t explain it, but I hope it never stops.

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

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