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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Jean Baudrillard

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

3 December 2020 Cleo Moore

I’m not a very good painter, but I’m learning a lot.

3 December 2020 Gavin MacLeod

It’s very trying on a marriage when you’re doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don’t have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

3 December 2020 Russell Brand

When I was growing up, I thought I’d be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

3 December 2020 Sarah McLachlan

It’s a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn’t write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

3 December 2020 W. H. Auden

Now is the age of anxiety.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don’t they?

3 December 2020 Pope Benedict XVI

Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

3 December 2020 Jack Herer

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front.

3 December 2020 Leon Kass

It’s very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

3 December 2020 Venus Williams

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I’m tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

3 December 2020 Henry Rollins

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don’t know the cause.

3 December 2020 Corrie Ten Boom

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

3 December 2020 Thomas a Kempis

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

3 December 2020 Roy Barnes

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

3 December 2020 Harvey Fierstein

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it’s a role that’s underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

3 December 2020 Heather O'Reilly

At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness – your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

3 December 2020 Adam Sandler

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Edwards

I’ve had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

3 December 2020 Guru Nanak

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

3 December 2020 Marie Corelli

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

3 December 2020 Lactantius

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

3 December 2020 Donald Knuth

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop – it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

3 December 2020 Louis C. K.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it’s too expensive to change the interface.

3 December 2020 John Hall

More negatives write than call. It’s a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

3 December 2020 Margaret Cavendish

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

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