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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Barry Commoner

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

3 December 2020 Jon Porter

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

3 December 2020 Abraham Maslow

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

3 December 2020 Robert Duvall

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

3 December 2020 Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

3 December 2020 Camryn Manheim

When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

3 December 2020 William Wordsworth

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

3 December 2020 Margaret Cavendish

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

3 December 2020 John Burroughs

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

3 December 2020 Arundhati Roy

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

3 December 2020 Jessica Brown Findlay

I am a hopeless romantic.

3 December 2020 Plato

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

3 December 2020 Ferdinand Mount

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins

I love romantic poetry.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

3 December 2020 Ben Nicholas

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.

3 December 2020 Alan Ladd

I’ve always had a great respect for the picture business. It’s been good to me.

3 December 2020 Zosia Mamet

My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

3 December 2020 Kevin Kelly

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

3 December 2020 Yahoo Serious

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you’ll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It’s a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

3 December 2020 Bob Kane

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

3 December 2020 Andrea Dworkin

You think intercourse is a private act it’s not, it’s a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

3 December 2020 Jim Doyle

As I’ve often said, Wisconsin’s greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.

3 December 2020 John Osborne

Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.

3 December 2020 August Wilson

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling… It’s the attitude that’s in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

3 December 2020 John Erskine

There’s a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

3 December 2020 Robert Kennedy

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

3 December 2020 Mitt Romney

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

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