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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Bear Grylls

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

3 December 2020 Joel Rosenberg

I’m a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

3 December 2020 James Madison

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

3 December 2020 Joel Robuchon

I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It’s comfort food for me.

3 December 2020 Don Sherwood

Penn State is a leader in food science.

3 December 2020 James Stewart

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world… A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit… But it caught on, especially with young people – they surprised me most of all.

3 December 2020 Anwar Robinson

I actually don’t feel famous.

3 December 2020 Georg Buchner

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

3 December 2020 Rush Limbaugh

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

3 December 2020 Heather Locklear

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.

3 December 2020 Isabel Allende

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the ‘message,’ even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

3 December 2020 Jimi Hendrix

My nature just changes.

3 December 2020 William Hazlitt

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

3 December 2020 Richard Morris

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it’s better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

3 December 2020 Napoleon Hill

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

3 December 2020 Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

3 December 2020 Daniel Craig

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the ‘Thomas Crown Affair’. It’s, it’s, I don’t know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It’s the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it’s not.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

3 December 2020 Diogenes

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

3 December 2020 Robert Sternberg

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring

Your computer needn’t be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

3 December 2020 Joe Nichols

That’s what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think it’s great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young.

3 December 2020 Donald Pleasence

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

3 December 2020 John Raleigh Mott

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel – for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

3 December 2020 Harlan Coben

Frankly I’m fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

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