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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Jacob Lew

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

3 December 2020 Gilbert Parker

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

3 December 2020 Sophia Loren

Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

3 December 2020 Maurice Strong

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

3 December 2020 Halle Berry

I’m learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

3 December 2020 Louis C. K.

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I’m making plenty of money.

3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

3 December 2020 Will Rogers

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

3 December 2020 Stendhal

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

3 December 2020 Ozwald Boateng

When things happen – you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That’s the most amazing thing about time.

3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka

I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.

3 December 2020 Gerard Butler

I was training to be a lawyer… I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

3 December 2020 Emma Roberts

I’m obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I’ve literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

3 December 2020 Jean Claude Van Damme

Life is short. I’m 47 years old. I’ve got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I’ve made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

3 December 2020 Audrey Meadows

They weren’t impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.

3 December 2020 Octavia Butler

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

3 December 2020 John Hersey

All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o’clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

3 December 2020 William Hurt

The thing is, I don’t believe in most of what’s done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that’s put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

3 December 2020 Aldrich Ames

Foreign Ministry guys don’t become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

3 December 2020 Kiana Tom

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

3 December 2020 James Thomson

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

3 December 2020 Magic Johnson

I tell you, it’s funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

3 December 2020 James Fallows

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China’s continued development. That’s according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

3 December 2020 Andy Warhol

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

3 December 2020 Dr. Seuss

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

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