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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

3 December 2020 George Osborne

The foundations of a strong economy don’t rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

3 December 2020 Paul Harris

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

3 December 2020 Jake Lloyd

I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.

3 December 2020 Fred Durst

I’ve always wanted to make movies.

3 December 2020 Kel Mitchell

I was a drama major also so it’s cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no.

3 December 2020 James Anthony Froude

The secret of a person’s nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

3 December 2020 Daphne Zuniga

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

3 December 2020 Confucius

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

3 December 2020 Tryon Edwards

To rule one’s anger is well to prevent it is better.

3 December 2020 Janine Turner

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

3 December 2020 Julie Burchill

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

3 December 2020 Richard Widmark

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral’s flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

3 December 2020 Robin Cousins

Advise for anybody – enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don’t be impatient.

3 December 2020 Douglas Wilson

I’m opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don’t waver.

3 December 2020 Dan Quayle

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

3 December 2020 Sally Kirkland

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham

The world in general doesn’t know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

3 December 2020 Lily Tomlin

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

3 December 2020 Guy Madison

Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.

3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

3 December 2020 Barry McGuire

There’s only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn’t sing his song. Because for me, it wasn’t a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

3 December 2020 Jane Smiley

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

3 December 2020 Michelle Bachelet

Educational equality doesn’t guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and ‘leaky pipelines’ that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

3 December 2020 Jeff Koons

I think about my work every minute of the day.

3 December 2020 Otis Blackwell

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis’ birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

3 December 2020 Alan Ladd

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

3 December 2020 Archibald MacLeish

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

3 December 2020 Conan O'Brien

Every comedian dreams of hosting ‘The Tonight Show’ and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

3 December 2020 Karl Rove

The fallback position in politics is if you don’t know what you want to be about, and if you don’t know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

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