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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Marvin Davis

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

3 December 2020 Renny Harlin

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all – no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody’s garage in Los Angeles at that point – for a year.

3 December 2020 Boris Pasternak

I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.

3 December 2020 Martha Gellhorn

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

3 December 2020 Richard M. Daley

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

3 December 2020 Rachel Stevens

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn’t know really know what I would do to get there.

3 December 2020 Paula Deen

When it’s said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it’s a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

3 December 2020 Barack Obama

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

3 December 2020 Irvine Welsh

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

3 December 2020 Leonard Cohen

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they’re paid for it.

3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

3 December 2020 Lawrence Welk

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

3 December 2020 Deepak Chopra

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

3 December 2020 Laura Linney

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that’s just in the suitcase when you’re an actor.

3 December 2020 Brian Eno

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

3 December 2020 Michael Badnarik

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

3 December 2020 Polly Toynbee

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

3 December 2020 Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

3 December 2020 Jackie Robinson

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

3 December 2020 Robert Mapplethorpe

I would never have done what I’d done if I’d considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

3 December 2020 Brett Favre

You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it’s a tough loss, you’re down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it’s amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you’re like it never happened.

3 December 2020 John Cheever

I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss – you can’t do it alone.

3 December 2020 Stendhal

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

3 December 2020 Alice Walker

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

3 December 2020 Justin Bieber

I’ve got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I’ve got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don’t spend too much at all.

3 December 2020 Rush Limbaugh

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that’s the media.

3 December 2020 Dave Barry

Guys are simple… women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

3 December 2020 Bernard Meltzer

When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.

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