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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

3 December 2020 LL Cool J

When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

3 December 2020 Jane Goodall

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

3 December 2020 Billy Graham

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

3 December 2020 Samantha Barks

I’ve looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

3 December 2020 Annie Lennox

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion – very powerful emotions. That’s what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and – people identify with that.

3 December 2020 Anne Wilson Schaef

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr.

I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.

3 December 2020 Barry McGuire

I remember we woke up one morning at Denny’s house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what’s wrong, what’s going on? He said, well, everybody’s dead over at Sharon’s house at Terry Melcher’s place.

3 December 2020 Newt Gingrich

I don’t see how the party that says it’s the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

3 December 2020 Kurt Busch

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.

3 December 2020 Bonnie Raitt

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby – nothing more.

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

3 December 2020 Sutton Foster

I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it’s baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.

3 December 2020 Johnny Carson

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

3 December 2020 Natalie Goldberg

Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind.

3 December 2020 Ernst Fischer

I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

3 December 2020 Hosea Ballou

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

3 December 2020 Deborah Tannen

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation – or a relationship.

3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

3 December 2020 Georges Bataille

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one’s rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

3 December 2020 Jean Genet

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

3 December 2020 Camryn Manheim

It never occurred to me that I’d be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

3 December 2020 Andy Grove

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

3 December 2020 Eugenio Montale

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

3 December 2020 Luis Figo

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

3 December 2020 Jerry Stiller

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there’s a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

3 December 2020 Damon Albarn

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that’s being made all over the world.

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