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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 William Hague

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

3 December 2020 Mike Peters

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you’d signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now… unless you’ve signed to a big label, you’re a failure now.

3 December 2020 Henry Mayhew

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

3 December 2020 Henry Rollins

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

3 December 2020 Richard Cecil

God’s way of answering the Christian’s prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

3 December 2020 David Bowie

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

3 December 2020 Nick Cave

I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

3 December 2020 Paula Poundstone

I don’t need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

3 December 2020 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

3 December 2020 Michelle Rodriguez

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn’t know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

3 December 2020 Tony Randall

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

3 December 2020 Katie Couric

All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.

3 December 2020 Bernard Baruch

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

3 December 2020 Marc Jacobs

I don’t think, ‘Gee, I’d like to dress this person.’ There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.

3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr.

I have those dreams that you can’t put into words.

3 December 2020 Shigeru Miyamoto

I don’t think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don’t have something to hold in your hand, if you don’t have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.

3 December 2020 Dan Savage

One man’s blasphemy doesn’t override other people’s free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

3 December 2020 Al Yankovic

When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

3 December 2020 Marianne Williamson

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

3 December 2020 Arlen Specter

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

3 December 2020 Aldrich Ames

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt

Power is paradoxical.

3 December 2020 William Shatner

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that ‘This is going to be terrific’ and ‘This is the best thing I’ve ever done’ and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it’s good or bad.

3 December 2020 Eva Herzigova

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I’m not famous any more.

3 December 2020 Huston Smith

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

3 December 2020 Joan Rivers

Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

3 December 2020 Michelle Trachtenberg

I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine’s Day stands for because it is about love.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

3 December 2020 Emile Zola

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

3 December 2020 Huston Smith

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

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