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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ryan Lochte

I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.

3 December 2020 Harlan Howard

Country music is three chords and the truth.

3 December 2020 Paul Getty

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

3 December 2020 Robert Fripp

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

3 December 2020 Florence Welch

I’m completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

3 December 2020 David Ogilvy

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

3 December 2020 Agnetha Faltskog

When I’m living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it’s a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

3 December 2020 Mark Strand

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

3 December 2020 John Cusack

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted.

3 December 2020 Frank Langella

If you’re lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

3 December 2020 Helen Hunt Jackson

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

3 December 2020 Herbert Simon

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

3 December 2020 Arlie Russell Hochschild

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn’t get done.

3 December 2020 Sandra Lee

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

3 December 2020 Clare Boothe Luce

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

3 December 2020 Rita Rudner

To attract men, I wear a perfume called ‘New Car Interior.’

3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

3 December 2020 Wilfred Burchett

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon – although that anger came later.

3 December 2020 Philip Kaufman

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

3 December 2020 James Tobin

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

3 December 2020 Wentworth Miller

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

3 December 2020 Chaim Potok

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

3 December 2020 Max Weinberg

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He’s the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I’ve ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

3 December 2020 Malcom X

You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.

3 December 2020 Rob Walton

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that’s 14 year old boys.

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