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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Carl Lewis

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let’s make it amateur again.

3 December 2020 Leland Stanford

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

3 December 2020 Alton Brown

I kept thinking, ‘Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time… a show that got down to the ‘why things happen.’ Plus, I hated my job – I didn’t think it was very worthwhile.

3 December 2020 Paz de la Huerta

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

3 December 2020 David Cronenberg

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn’t live forever? People don’t talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you’re not born with that knowledge.

3 December 2020 Vivienne Westwood

I don’t follow politics much.

3 December 2020 Billy Baldwin

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It’s not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.

3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

3 December 2020 Plautus

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

3 December 2020 David Mamet

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

3 December 2020 Danielle Steel

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you’re famous.

3 December 2020 Marjorie Holmes

What feeling is so nice as a child’s hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

3 December 2020 Jack Kemp

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein

The great thing that guys like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it’s art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

3 December 2020 Diablo Cody

I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don’t know why. I don’t think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she’s a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.

3 December 2020 Vanessa Hudgens

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

3 December 2020 Francis Beaumont

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

3 December 2020 Dennis Prager

If your religion doesn’t teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

3 December 2020 Stephen Covey

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

3 December 2020 Gaston Bachelard

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

3 December 2020 Ritchie Blackmore

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that’s what caught everybody’s attention. As a player, he didn’t do anything amazing.

3 December 2020 Henry Rollins

Most Americans are very cool people.

3 December 2020 Frank Gifford

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

3 December 2020 Gore Vidal

We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov

Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

3 December 2020 Meryl Streep

I didn’t have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

3 December 2020 Radha Mitchell

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it’s about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

3 December 2020 Will McDonough

I think money in general hurts all sports.

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