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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Scott Porter

I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there’s that old saying: ‘Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.’

3 December 2020 Jonah Hill

I’ve never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy… I’ve always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn’t like, ‘Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.’ I had a great high-school experience.

3 December 2020 Yakov Smirnoff

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing – like showering.

3 December 2020 Cornelius Vanderbilt

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

3 December 2020 Irving Babbitt

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

3 December 2020 Kristi Yamaguchi

I’d try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn’t always work.

3 December 2020 Alan Jackson

I like to write sad songs. They’re much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don’t want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn’t they want that positive, uptempo thing.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

3 December 2020 Norman Vincent Peale

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

3 December 2020 e. e. cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

3 December 2020 Steven Wright

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

3 December 2020 Ezra Koenig

I do think sometimes there’s danger in guest appearance mania. I’ve seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like ‘Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy’s song,’ and then that’s all it is. It’s a cool idea that sounds good on paper.

3 December 2020 Jackson Pollock

My painting does not come from the easel.

3 December 2020 Billy Sheehan

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

3 December 2020 Stephen Carter

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

3 December 2020 Emanuel Cleaver

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We’ve got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don’t have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

3 December 2020 Willie Nelson

Freedom is control in your own life.

3 December 2020 Chris Ware

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they’re similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it’s performed.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther

Reason is the enemy of faith.

3 December 2020 Kim Cattrall

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls… because they can.

3 December 2020 Keith Richards

If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

3 December 2020 Wendell Phillips

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

3 December 2020 Dieter Rams

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

3 December 2020 Larry Wall

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that’s great.

3 December 2020 William Gibson

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We’re dreamers, you see, but we’re also realists, of a sort.

3 December 2020 Dave Mustaine

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn’t a man made a big difference.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

3 December 2020 John Calvin

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

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