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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Robert Bly

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

3 December 2020 Tara Strong

There’s a lot more to see when you’re playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.

3 December 2020 Mae West

Any time you got nothing to do – and lots of time to do it – come on up.

3 December 2020 Calvin Klein

I don’t trust a lot of journalists.

3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

3 December 2020 Byron Dorgan

We need leadership, and we need it now.

3 December 2020 Kelly Osbourne

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don’t recognize our own beauty because we’re too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

3 December 2020 Charlie Chaplin

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

3 December 2020 Todd McFarlane

I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal.

3 December 2020 Hattie McDaniel

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

3 December 2020 Shimon Peres

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

3 December 2020 G. Gordon Liddy

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

3 December 2020 Ric Flair

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

3 December 2020 Albert J. Nock

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

3 December 2020 Selma Blair

I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I’d cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.

3 December 2020 Rudolf Arnheim

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man’s actions are governed by the same tendency.

3 December 2020 Cecil Beaton

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

3 December 2020 John Key

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

3 December 2020 Ogden Nash

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

3 December 2020 Dalai Lama

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

3 December 2020 Alexis Carrel

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

3 December 2020 Michelangelo

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

3 December 2020 Beverley Mitchell

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

3 December 2020 Dudley Moore

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

3 December 2020 Maggie Gyllenhaal

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you’re rehearsing, you’re working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you’re doing the play, you have all day.

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