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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

3 December 2020 Recep Tayyip Erdogan

A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.

3 December 2020 Charles M. Schulz

Try not to have a good time… this is supposed to be educational.

3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

3 December 2020 Ron Reagan

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It’s a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

3 December 2020 Craig McCracken

I’m a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

3 December 2020 William Ellery Channing

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

3 December 2020 Kate Moss

Lila can’t be a model until she’s at least 21. She is already a mini-me – it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.

3 December 2020 Carmelo Anthony

Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‘God, somebody’s made a mistake.’ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‘Remember, you’re not a star.’ Yet there it was up in lights.

3 December 2020 Heraclitus

The sun is new each day.

3 December 2020 George S. Patton

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

3 December 2020 Ivan Illich

Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

3 December 2020 Margaret Oliphant

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

3 December 2020 Bruce Catton

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

3 December 2020 Robert Browning

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

3 December 2020 Mark Zandi

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there’s any time left over, then I play sports.

3 December 2020 Mark Addy

A lot of people say that comedy doesn’t travel well. I found it very accessible.

3 December 2020 Christopher Dodd

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

3 December 2020 William Hurt

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful – unless one was striving for mediocrity.

3 December 2020 Kevin O'Leary

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

3 December 2020 Reese Witherspoon

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

3 December 2020 Dee Dee Ramone

I started listening to and playing other music in the ’90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

3 December 2020 Robert Wyatt

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

3 December 2020 Ethan Hawke

I did one sci-fi movie. I did ‘Gattaca.’ I liked ‘Gattaca’ because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

3 December 2020 Antonio Banderas

I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.

3 December 2020 Jerome Bruner

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

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