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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

3 December 2020 Will Smith

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

3 December 2020 Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

3 December 2020 Cate Blanchett

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

3 December 2020 Treat Williams

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

3 December 2020 Mark McGwire

I’m not here to discuss the past… I’m here to be positive.

3 December 2020 Big Sean

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don’t say that to brag, I just want to be an example.

3 December 2020 Matthew Rhys

I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We’d go to this British pub to watch the ‘Six Nations’ early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.

3 December 2020 Arnold H. Glasow

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we’re ready for it.

3 December 2020 Coco Lee

I’m not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She’s very protective.

3 December 2020 Lactantius

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

3 December 2020 Philip Seymour Hoffman

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you’re helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

3 December 2020 John McLaughlin

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

3 December 2020 Haile Gebrselassie

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

3 December 2020 B. B. King

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

3 December 2020 John Carmack

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

3 December 2020 John Ruskin

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

3 December 2020 Doutzen Kroes

I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.

3 December 2020 Ida B. Wells

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

3 December 2020 Andrea McLean

Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don’t agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don’t force them to follow my diet.

3 December 2020 Thomas Frank

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

3 December 2020 Raul Julia

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

3 December 2020 Andre Breton

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

3 December 2020 David Steinberg

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can’t help their careers, then they’re not going to be interested.

3 December 2020 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

3 December 2020 Karl Rove

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

3 December 2020 Edward Young

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

3 December 2020 Venus Williams

It wasn’t like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

3 December 2020 Fred Upton

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

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