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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Lewis Grizzard

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

3 December 2020 David Hare

Strength was the virtue of paganism obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

3 December 2020 LeRoy Neiman

Imagination comes of not having things.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp

Manners are love in a cool climate.

3 December 2020 Laurence J. Peter

You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.

3 December 2020 Bob Beauprez

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

3 December 2020 David Bowie

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody’s talents.

3 December 2020 Carl Jung

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

3 December 2020 Johnny Knoxville

I love Louisiana. It’s amazing.

3 December 2020 Jonas Salk

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

3 December 2020 Adam Carolla

A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money – do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

3 December 2020 Thandie Newton

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s – I am 39 – lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks – thinner, drier skin.

3 December 2020 Al Sharpton

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

3 December 2020 Edna Ferber

Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

3 December 2020 Ben Stiller

I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

3 December 2020 Niklas Zennstrom

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

3 December 2020 Anish Kapoor

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

3 December 2020 Bobby Knight

You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

3 December 2020 Freddie Mercury

I’m not into business at all.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

3 December 2020 Usain Bolt

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you’re famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

3 December 2020 Julie Bowen

I’ve had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I’m dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn’t know, though.

3 December 2020 John C. Maxwell

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

3 December 2020 Minnie Driver

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting – a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That’s the exception to the rule.

3 December 2020 Thomas Browne

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

3 December 2020 Parker Stevenson

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

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