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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau

When I’m acting, I’m two beings. There’s the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

3 December 2020 P. G. Wodehouse

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

3 December 2020 Kellan Lutz

Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a ‘Power Ranger’-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there’s no hair, no makeup.

3 December 2020 Euripides

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

3 December 2020 Walter Annenberg

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

3 December 2020 Steve Burton

I’m not really a morning person.

3 December 2020 Billie Holiday

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

3 December 2020 William Cavendish

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

3 December 2020 Joseph Story

A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

3 December 2020 Alice Cooper

If it’s total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn’t even have to play.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

3 December 2020 Max Beerbohm

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

3 December 2020 Lance Reddick

It’s funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

3 December 2020 Matthew Perry

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it’s just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

3 December 2020 Norman Cousins

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

3 December 2020 Solomon Ortiz

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation’s standing worldwide… and our teachers know that.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Jowett

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

3 December 2020 Maria Shriver

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

3 December 2020 Zoe Kazan

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

3 December 2020 Hosea Ballou

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

3 December 2020 Stephen Bayley

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

3 December 2020 Nick Clooney

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

3 December 2020 Lindsey Buckingham

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

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