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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Thomas J. Watson

Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

3 December 2020 Charles de Secondat

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

3 December 2020 Isabelle Adjani

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

3 December 2020 Robert Morgan

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

3 December 2020 Barack Obama

We need earmark reform, and when I’m President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

3 December 2020 Roger Ascham

Let the master praise him, and say, ‘Here ye do well.’ For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

3 December 2020 Francois Hollande

The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.

3 December 2020 Tallulah Bankhead

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there’s no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

3 December 2020 Stanislaw Lec

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

3 December 2020 Janice Dickinson

But you see, that’s the gilded prison of fashion. We’re riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

3 December 2020 Tony Visconti

But some great records are are being made with today’s technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn’t have emerged when recording was more organic.

3 December 2020 Danny Boyle

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don’t have the acting you’re bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you’re like, ‘So what?’

3 December 2020 John McDonald

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

3 December 2020 Cathy Freeman

I feel like I’ve reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I’ve been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I’ve been, and beyond it.

3 December 2020 Shirley MacLaine

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

3 December 2020 Margaret Sanger

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

3 December 2020 Adam Osborne

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

3 December 2020 George Santayana

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

3 December 2020 Steven Wright

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

3 December 2020 Jerry Seinfeld

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

3 December 2020 David Zucker

I don’t really know a lot of famous people. I’ve met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn’t come up to me and say, ‘Hi Dave!’

3 December 2020 Jim Morrison

This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.

3 December 2020 Lee Krasner

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there’s a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

3 December 2020 Jamie Redknapp

My dad knows the business, and he tells me I’ve got to do what’s best for me.

3 December 2020 Monica Lewinsky

And understandably so, that when you’re in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

3 December 2020 Dean Inge

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

3 December 2020 Kathy Najimy

First and foremost, I’m a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

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