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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

3 December 2020 Bjork

It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

3 December 2020 Louis D. Brandeis

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

3 December 2020 Norman Spinrad

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it’s not by design. The United States dominates because it’s the biggest market.

3 December 2020 David Boreanaz

In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.

3 December 2020 Walt Whitman

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

3 December 2020 Michael Sheen

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother’s into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

3 December 2020 Alexander Payne

I get asked, ‘How can you have such failures in your films?’ Well, what else is life about? There’s some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

3 December 2020 Thomas Merton

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

3 December 2020 Ralph Cudworth

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

3 December 2020 Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party – though they are quite numerous – is no freedom at all.

3 December 2020 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

World history is a court of judgment.

3 December 2020 Ralph Merkle

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

3 December 2020 Walter Scott

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

3 December 2020 Scott Hamilton

I graduated a the top of my class in the ’84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.

3 December 2020 Paul D. Boyer

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

3 December 2020 Christian Lacroix

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

3 December 2020 David E. Price

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

3 December 2020 Jack Bruce

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

3 December 2020 Ashley Tisdale

I’m living out my dreams and I love what I do.

3 December 2020 Michael Kors

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.

3 December 2020 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

3 December 2020 Andy Rooney

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

3 December 2020 Mikhail Bakunin

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

3 December 2020 Lester Bangs

The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.

3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf

I turned down twelve films last year… Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

3 December 2020 Amos Bronson Alcott

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit out of it.

3 December 2020 Jane Fonda

It’s about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

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