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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Tom Vilsack

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

3 December 2020 Sidney Lanier

Music is love in search of a word.

3 December 2020 William Hazlitt

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one – they show one another off to the best advantage.

3 December 2020 Steven Morrissey

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you’re younger but now I just think ‘well everybody’s absolutely mad and I’m doing quite well’.

3 December 2020 Ernest Istook

We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can’t have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.

3 December 2020 Emma Goldman

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

3 December 2020 Larry David

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it’s the best of both worlds. There’s a lot to be said for it.

3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

3 December 2020 Robert Farrar Capon

At the root of many a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

3 December 2020 Kevin J. Anderson

I’m talking to you and it’s basically a direct communication, whereas if I’m writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

3 December 2020 Heinz R. Pagels

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

3 December 2020 Samantha Mumba

All I say is that I don’t go out with famous men.

3 December 2020 Lisa Leslie

I don’t think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn’t have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.

3 December 2020 Earl Monroe

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn’t even start playing basketball until I was 14.

3 December 2020 Mary Schmich

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

3 December 2020 John Wooden

I’m glad I was a teacher.

3 December 2020 Matthew Sweet

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

3 December 2020 Vin Diesel

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

3 December 2020 Nicki Minaj

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

3 December 2020 Alain Robert

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

3 December 2020 Jack Bruce

We all have roles in life. I’m a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I’m on the stage.

3 December 2020 Tom Hanks

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

3 December 2020 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

3 December 2020 Barbara Boxer

I would not run for president. I really like what I’m doing now. People say I’m giving them energy and hope.

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

3 December 2020 Charles Olson

I don’t live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

3 December 2020 George Washington

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

3 December 2020 Paracelsus

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

3 December 2020 Werner Herzog

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

3 December 2020 Bill Scott

My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.

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