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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Jesse Jackson

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

3 December 2020 George Edward Moore

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

3 December 2020 Miguel Angel Ruiz

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

3 December 2020 K. D. Lang

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

3 December 2020 Michael Caine

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn’t know anyone unknown who didn’t become famous.

3 December 2020 James Rouse

Whatever ought to be, can be.

3 December 2020 Rashida Jones

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for ‘integrity’ in the dictionary. ‘Truthful’ doesn’t really cover it, or ‘genuine.’ It should be like ‘integritus.’

3 December 2020 Pope John XXIII

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

3 December 2020 George Ade

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

3 December 2020 Kenneth G. Wilson

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

3 December 2020 Stanley Crouch

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

3 December 2020 Amanda Hocking

My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that’s really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

3 December 2020 Stokely Carmichael

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

3 December 2020 Eric Hobsbawm

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they’re not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

3 December 2020 Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

3 December 2020 Betty Hill

And I’m walking along and we’re laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.

3 December 2020 Lenny Kravitz

There are so many people that don’t believe in themselves and don’t have faith.

3 December 2020 Garrison Keillor

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

3 December 2020 Susan Sarandon

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

3 December 2020 Helena Christensen

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

3 December 2020 Thomas Friedman

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

3 December 2020 Orville Redenbacher

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

3 December 2020 William Green

I’ve been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

3 December 2020 Glen Hansard

And for some reason, when I’m sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that’s actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

3 December 2020 William Griffith Wilson

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

3 December 2020 Rene Redzepi

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

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