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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Aimee Mann

There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

3 December 2020 Newt Gingrich

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

3 December 2020 Burt Ward

I make personal appearances around the country. I’m starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I’m doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.

3 December 2020 Dalai Lama

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

3 December 2020 Harlan Coben

I’d never had money growing up, and it’s never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

3 December 2020 Jean Reno

I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one’s voice.

3 December 2020 Carly Fiorina

It’s the federal government’s job to secure the border.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

3 December 2020 Mae West

I like a man who’s good, but not too good – for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

3 December 2020 George Eliot

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

3 December 2020 Matt Stone

Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we’ve done on the show, like it.

3 December 2020 David Alan Grier

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

3 December 2020 Demian Bichir

There is a film called ‘A Separation.’ If you see it playing, go see it. It’s beautiful. It’s so well written and the acting is amazing. It’s one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

3 December 2020 Charles Barkley

If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

3 December 2020 Tammy Faye Bakker

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

3 December 2020 Norman Borlaug

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

3 December 2020 George Sand

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

3 December 2020 Georges Duhamel

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

3 December 2020 Joseph Addison

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

3 December 2020 John Cusack

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn’t before.

3 December 2020 George Linnaeus Banks

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

3 December 2020 Ralph Nader

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, ‘Dad we need a third political party.’ He said to me, ‘I’ll settle for a second.’

3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

3 December 2020 Kellan Lutz

I’m really into extreme sports and just having fun.

3 December 2020 George MacDonald

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

3 December 2020 Brittany Snow

I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.

3 December 2020 Washington Irving

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

3 December 2020 Max Cannon

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn’t necessarily sit with them or why we would or what’s cool or not cool.

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