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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Lisa Bonet

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

3 December 2020 Mary Astell

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

3 December 2020 Jack Black

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That’s my plan.

3 December 2020 Armistead Maupin

But it’s amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

3 December 2020 Robert Anton Wilson

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

3 December 2020 Martin Yan

I don’t like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

3 December 2020 Bonnie Blair

It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.

3 December 2020 William Ellery Channing

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

3 December 2020 Jason Reitman

I’m not going to have a perfect career. It’s better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

3 December 2020 Emeril Lagasse

I’ve always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I’m trying to get across is, it doesn’t have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day.

3 December 2020 Anna Kendrick

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn’t get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

3 December 2020 Ben Stiller

There’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!

3 December 2020 John Burroughs

If you think you can do it, you can.

3 December 2020 William Arthur Ward

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

3 December 2020 Thomas Frank

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn’t work on this mirror principle, you don’t have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn’t work that way.

3 December 2020 Ernst Fischer

If you can’t pay for a thing, don’t buy it. If you can’t get paid for it, don’t sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don’t wait for time.

3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

3 December 2020 Tacitus

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

3 December 2020 Dave Matthews

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Sisto

I’m a dad now and whatever I’m doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it – usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.

3 December 2020 Lucy Powell

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

3 December 2020 Barack Obama

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

3 December 2020 A. C. Benson

One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.

3 December 2020 Johnny Rotton

If anyone asks for your autograph they’re showing you respect and give it back to them.

3 December 2020 Lorraine Hansberry

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

3 December 2020 Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

3 December 2020 Alexander Ludwig

My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

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