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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Robert Caro

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

3 December 2020 Tina Fey

Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.

3 December 2020 Davy Crockett

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

3 December 2020 Laurence J. Peter

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

3 December 2020 Ross Perot

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

3 December 2020 Pope Shenouda III

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

3 December 2020 Juan Antonio Samaranch

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

3 December 2020 Thom Yorke

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won’t any by the time… he’s my age. That’s kinda hard to deal with.

3 December 2020 Bill Nighy

I’m not famous for my back story investigations I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.

3 December 2020 Jesus Christ

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

3 December 2020 Steve Jobs

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

3 December 2020 Jim Jarmusch

I didn’t get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on ‘being more’ rather than simply having more.

3 December 2020 Leona Lewis

I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can’t eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Davis

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that’s real most of that whiny stuff isn’t real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

3 December 2020 Kinky Friedman

We’re first on executions. We’re 49th in funding public education. We’re in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we’re winning.

3 December 2020 Max Lerner

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

3 December 2020 David Blaine

My only fear is the unknown.

3 December 2020 Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

3 December 2020 Ramakrishna

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

3 December 2020 Anais Nin

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

3 December 2020 Godfrey Reggio

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

3 December 2020 Plautus

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

3 December 2020 Temple Grandin

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

3 December 2020 Norodom Sihanouk

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.

3 December 2020 Frank Murkowski

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

3 December 2020 Richard Powers

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

3 December 2020 Clive Barker

My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.

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