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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Robert Dale Owen

Fulfill – you can far more than fulfill – the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.

3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen

Today’s leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.

3 December 2020 Mitch Hedberg

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

3 December 2020 Minnie Driver

In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.

3 December 2020 Terri Apter

Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

3 December 2020 Sparky Anderson

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I’ve got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There’s no future in it.

3 December 2020 George Edward Moore

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.

3 December 2020 Edward Gibbon

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

3 December 2020 Kurt Vonnegut

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

3 December 2020 Imran Khan

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

3 December 2020 Terri Windling

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn’t have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

3 December 2020 Edvard Munch

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

3 December 2020 Yancy Butler

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

3 December 2020 Jose Marti

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

3 December 2020 Gerry Cooney

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

3 December 2020 Oliver Stone

There’s an electrical thing about movies.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

3 December 2020 Donald Pleasence

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film’s future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.

3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

3 December 2020 Guy Pearce

You work on things and you have such faith in them while you’re making them that everything feels special – in a way.

3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

3 December 2020 Dan Savage

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he’d met when I came out to him were corpses.

3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

3 December 2020 Ovid

Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.

3 December 2020 John Donne

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

3 December 2020 Mac Thornberry

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

3 December 2020 John Archibald Wheeler

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

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