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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Olivier Martinez

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it’s tough.

3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation’s schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it’s unfortunate.

3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

3 December 2020 Virgil Goode

In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees’ Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month’s paycheck.

3 December 2020 Leona Lewis

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won’t have that person around me.

3 December 2020 Jared Diamond

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn’t long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we’ve got in this country.

3 December 2020 Timothy Dalton

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

3 December 2020 Rene Redzepi

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home… and eating it.

3 December 2020 Rodney King

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

3 December 2020 Lee Westwood

People mature at different stages and I feel I’m learning a lot.

3 December 2020 Ann Coulter

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn’t demand a recount.

3 December 2020 Ron Reagan

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

3 December 2020 Bruce Barton

When you are through changing, you are through.

3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

3 December 2020 Bill Vaughan

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

3 December 2020 Ron Paul

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

3 December 2020 Satchel Paige

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

3 December 2020 John McCarthy

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

3 December 2020 Susan B. Anthony

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

3 December 2020 George Clooney

I love children and I get along with them great. It’s just that I believe if you’re going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, ‘I want a family.’ I don’t feel that sense of urgency.

3 December 2020 John Calvin

Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

3 December 2020 Warren Zevon

I don’t learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

3 December 2020 Edgar Allan Poe

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

3 December 2020 Julius Erving

In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

3 December 2020 J. G. Ballard

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

3 December 2020 Maxine Hong Kingston

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world – that I am able to change it in positive ways.

3 December 2020 Joan Chen

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it’s possible to actually reach success doing movies.

3 December 2020 Angela Davis

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

3 December 2020 Desiderius Erasmus

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

3 December 2020 Gary Numan

My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I’d inherited his care for money. Sadly, I’ve grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

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