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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Miroslav Vitous

I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.

3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham

There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.

3 December 2020 Diane Lane

I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who’s not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.

3 December 2020 Andrew Carnegie

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

3 December 2020 Julia Roberts

They say I can open movies, and that’s nice in that it puts into people’s minds that women can do it. It’s not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

3 December 2020 Hamid Karzai

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

3 December 2020 Maurice Saatchi

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

3 December 2020 Shimon Peres

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don’t trust the third one – the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.

3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins

I’m not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

3 December 2020 Hilaire Belloc

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

3 December 2020 Iris Murdoch

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

3 December 2020 Jared Leto

I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I’d never done karaoke before.

3 December 2020 Kevin Costner

I like American history.

3 December 2020 Mike Mills

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

3 December 2020 Loretta Lynn

You can’t be halfway in this business. If you don’t meet the fans, you lose all you’ve got.

3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

3 December 2020 Carolus Linnaeus

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

3 December 2020 Michael York

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

Excessive fear is always powerless.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

3 December 2020 Jack LaLanne

Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?

3 December 2020 David Hockney

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.

3 December 2020 John Paul Jones

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.

3 December 2020 Bernard Manning

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

3 December 2020 Gerald Brenan

The cliche is dead poetry.

3 December 2020 Sammy Davis, Jr.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

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