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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

3 December 2020 Joyce Carol Oates

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

3 December 2020 Heidi Klum

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

3 December 2020 Slash

My dad is a huge rock n’ roll lead guitar fan.

3 December 2020 John Burns

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

3 December 2020 Daniel Nathans

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

3 December 2020 Alice Koller

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

3 December 2020 Frank McCourt

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

3 December 2020 John Barrymore

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

3 December 2020 Emeril Lagasse

Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It’s sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It’s always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.

3 December 2020 Charley Pride

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

3 December 2020 Thomas Reed

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

3 December 2020 Saint Patrick

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

3 December 2020 Annie Dillard

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

3 December 2020 Barbara Sher

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

3 December 2020 Van Wyck Brooks

There is no stopping the world’s tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Tilly

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it’s a seedy gritty world. Listen, I’ve played till 4 in the morning. I’ve played with a half million dollars on the table.

3 December 2020 Kamla Persad-Bissessar

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It’s a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it’s in the best interest of the citizens.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

Experience teaches only the teachable.

3 December 2020 Alvin Toffler

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

3 December 2020 Anwar Sadat

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

3 December 2020 Derek Luke

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I’d got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

3 December 2020 Rod Stewart

I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it’s not too pretty.

3 December 2020 Walter Isaacson

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.

3 December 2020 Uma Thurman

I don’t feel famous.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

3 December 2020 Zig Ziglar

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

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