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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Corey Feldman

As a kid, I liked the ‘Halloween’ movies and ‘Nightmare On Elm Street’ and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don’t watch much horror, to be honest.

3 December 2020 Fergie

I’m famous for splurging at fast-food places. I’m currently obsessed with Taco Bell’s bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

3 December 2020 Justin Halpern

I’m not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.

3 December 2020 Philip Warren Anderson

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

3 December 2020 Josh Billings

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

3 December 2020 Roberta Flack

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today’s music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

3 December 2020 Alice Miller

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

3 December 2020 Wietse Venema

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

3 December 2020 Camille Paglia

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women’s movement of the late 1960s and ’70s.

3 December 2020 Queen Victoria

I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

3 December 2020 Nelly

I try not to name too many labels – not because it’s not cool, but because it starts getting political.

3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams

What I’m still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

3 December 2020 David Bowie

There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.

3 December 2020 Will McDonough

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

3 December 2020 Eddie Van Halen

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

It is best to live however one can be.

3 December 2020 Peter Abelard

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

3 December 2020 Euripides

Cleverness is not wisdom.

3 December 2020 Maria Sharapova

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

3 December 2020 Abbe Pierre

My family background was deeply Christian.

3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

3 December 2020 Mark Strand

I certainly can’t speak for all cultures or all societies, but it’s clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It’s not part of the cultural mainstream.

3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

3 December 2020 Hosea Ballou

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

3 December 2020 Michael Phelps

Even in high school, I’d tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn’t too happy. She’d say, ‘Think about this.’ And I’d always end up getting back in the pool.

3 December 2020 Kelly Ayotte

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

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