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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Caecilius Statius

Fear created the first gods in the world.

3 December 2020 Rutherford B. Hayes

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

3 December 2020 David Attenborough

Natural history is not about producing fables.

3 December 2020 Matthew Barney

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

3 December 2020 Ethel Watts Mumford

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

3 December 2020 Malcolm Mclaren

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures – you’ve just got to be sure that it’s a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

3 December 2020 Carlos Fuentes

I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day’s writing.

3 December 2020 Venus Williams

Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do… but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.

3 December 2020 Jay Leno

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

3 December 2020 Jackie Kennedy

I don’t understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

3 December 2020 David Knopfler

Now I’m having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album – but I’m pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it’s meant I don’t drive a fancy car and can’t afford grand vacations.

3 December 2020 Carl Sagan

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson

One man with courage makes a majority.

3 December 2020 Jeff Bezos

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

3 December 2020 Peace Pilgrim

I don’t eat junk foods and I don’t think junk thoughts.

3 December 2020 Alberto Giacometti

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist’s obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

3 December 2020 Ajay Devgan

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

3 December 2020 Joseph Gordon-Levitt

To be honest, I sort of feel like ‘movie actor’ isn’t of this time. I love it. But it’s a 20th-century art form.

3 December 2020 Jack Kevorkian

Freedom has a price. Most people aren’t willing to pay it.

3 December 2020 William Holden

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn’t want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

3 December 2020 Sandra Lee

It’s really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.

3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It’s such a gamble.

3 December 2020 Marge Piercy

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

3 December 2020 Pat Riley

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

3 December 2020 Kofi Annan

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people… to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

3 December 2020 Fran Drescher

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

3 December 2020 Daniel Webster

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

3 December 2020 Wendell Berry

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

3 December 2020 Milan Kundera

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

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