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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 John Raleigh Mott

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

3 December 2020 Dorothy Hamill

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

3 December 2020 Peter Hammill

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it’s true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

3 December 2020 Kathy Ireland

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we’ll have them tomorrow.

3 December 2020 Miranda Lambert

My mom was always saying: ‘Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don’t waver. Don’t change who you are for anybody.’

3 December 2020 Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

3 December 2020 Michelle Pfeiffer

First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It’s a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

3 December 2020 George A. Romero

Ever since ‘Lassie’ and ‘Old Yeller’, I won’t watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

3 December 2020 Jordin Sparks

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

3 December 2020 Shigeru Miyamoto

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it’s almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

3 December 2020 David Frost

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

3 December 2020 Henry Miller

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

3 December 2020 Percy Bysshe Shelley

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

3 December 2020 Jane Campion

I think I made good movies.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

3 December 2020 Francis Quarles

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

3 December 2020 Jil Sander

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

3 December 2020 Michelle Rodriguez

The best part of making the movies… learning from the pros themselves.

3 December 2020 Salvador Dali

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson

There’s no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there’s no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

3 December 2020 Frank Carlucci

My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.

3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant

To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

3 December 2020 Bette Davis

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

3 December 2020 Bill Gates

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

3 December 2020 Jeff Foxworthy

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o’clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don’t know why there’s this big rush to do this.

3 December 2020 Dave Barry

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

3 December 2020 Joan Jett

Rock ‘n’ roll music is what gets me off.

3 December 2020 Hector Elizondo

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

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