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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Laura Linney

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

3 December 2020 Jenson Button

My ‘Movember’ moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell’s, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else’s. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid.

3 December 2020 Queen Latifah

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

3 December 2020 Julie Burchill

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

3 December 2020 James Iha

Well, we didn’t have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.

3 December 2020 Lena Horne

I’m still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don’t know.

3 December 2020 Hugh Jackman

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me – not success.

3 December 2020 Richard Eyre

A place makes a deep impression on you when you’re young. It lives with you. It’s like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

3 December 2020 Emma Roberts

You can’t trust actors.

3 December 2020 Patti Smith

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

3 December 2020 Wilfrid Laurier

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

3 December 2020 Fanny Brice

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn’t get serious with people. They don’t expect it from you, and they don’t want to see it. You’re not entitled to be serious, you’re a clown.

3 December 2020 John Donne

Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

There’s something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.

3 December 2020 Samuel Alexander

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

3 December 2020 Cristina Saralegui

Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.

3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

3 December 2020 John Updike

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

3 December 2020 Dale Murphy

If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.

3 December 2020 Charles R. Swindoll

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

3 December 2020 Seymoure Cray

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

3 December 2020 Jacob August Riis

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

3 December 2020 Roy Scheider

Freedom is a muscle… you have to exercise it.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

3 December 2020 Susanne Langer

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

3 December 2020 Maya Lin

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they’ be censored. We were a very insular little family.

3 December 2020 Iain Duncan Smith

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, ‘This is the way you want to be’. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

3 December 2020 John Muir

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order.

3 December 2020 Rita Rudner

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor’s office was full of portraits by Picasso.

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