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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Nick Clegg

I’m very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

3 December 2020 Francois Mitterrand

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

3 December 2020 Claude Bernard

Experimentation is an active science.

3 December 2020 Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

3 December 2020 Roy Orbison

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

3 December 2020 Raoul Vaneigem

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Rifkin

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Wales

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.

3 December 2020 Thomas Hobbes

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

3 December 2020 E. M. Forster

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

3 December 2020 George McGovern

I think the country’s getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I’m dating or what drugs I’m on or what club I went to.

3 December 2020 Kenneth Robert Livingstone

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

3 December 2020 Ang Lee

I don’t have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I’m not that kind of person.

3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.

3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

3 December 2020 Rita Rudner

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.

3 December 2020 Oliver Cromwell

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

3 December 2020 Kate Clinton

I try something new every night. It’s an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It’s a great workshop for me.

3 December 2020 Wanda Sykes

But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you’re funny you will get over all of that.

3 December 2020 Jon Secada

I’m a big believer in education, period.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

3 December 2020 Booker T. Washington

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

3 December 2020 Tina Yothers

People never cease to amaze me.

3 December 2020 Sally Quinn

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

3 December 2020 Doris Lessing

My father was in the First World War.

3 December 2020 Jim Davis

I didn’t have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

3 December 2020 Richard Hammond

The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever – check the tire pressure.

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