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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Douglas Horton

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

3 December 2020 Ron Paul

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

3 December 2020 Aldrich Ames

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

3 December 2020 Debi Thomas

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

3 December 2020 Jon Hamm

For a kid who’s lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Connors

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

3 December 2020 Candice Swanepoel

I’d like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

3 December 2020 Steve Case

Because I do think – not just in building AOL – but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

3 December 2020 Ellsworth Huntington

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

3 December 2020 Joseph Addison

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

3 December 2020 Dave Eggers

McSweeney’s as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

3 December 2020 John Wooden

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

3 December 2020 AnnaSophia Robb

When you’re a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can’t make a difference.

3 December 2020 Norman McLaren

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality – a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

3 December 2020 Salma Hayek

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you’re not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you’re not strong, they’re like, ‘Oh, no, no, no.’

3 December 2020 Alexandre Dumas

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

3 December 2020 Adam Carolla

You don’t realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It’s a card you get so you can navigate society.

3 December 2020 Adam Schiff

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King’s faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

3 December 2020 Curt Schilling

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

3 December 2020 Laura Marling

I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword – I’m loyal to one particular paper, the ‘Guardian’ – and that’s my idea of a perfect morning.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Netanyahu

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, ‘Look, we’re in the same city, we’re in the same building, for God’s sake, the U.N. Let’s just sit down and begin to talk peace.’

3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

3 December 2020 J. G. Stedman

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

3 December 2020 Daniel H. Wilson

I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in ‘Amped’ about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we’re really going to deal with soon.

3 December 2020 Jared Leto

I’ve always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it’s been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you’ve given something planetary status it’s kind of mean to take it away.

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