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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Richard Gere

Billions of people don’t practice a religion at all.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

3 December 2020 Walter Savage Landor

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

3 December 2020 Estelle Morris

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

3 December 2020 George Mason

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

3 December 2020 Jim Dine

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It’s about making the best kind of image I can make, it’s about talking as clearly as I can.

3 December 2020 Nicole Scherzinger

It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.

3 December 2020 William Bligh

On the 28th the ship’s company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen’s, where we were obliged to anchor.

3 December 2020 Johnny Galecki

I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about… jeez, I guess it was when I was doing ‘Christmas Vacation’, so I was about 13 or 14.

3 December 2020 Pete Coors

I’m a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn’t legislate this matter.

3 December 2020 Paul Farmer

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that’s where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

3 December 2020 Margaret Mead

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.

3 December 2020 Stephen Rea

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

3 December 2020 Toni Morrison

I don’t think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they’re black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That’s what we’re upset about.

3 December 2020 Criss Angel

It’s so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn’t have any money, and my only car was mom’s Hyundai.

3 December 2020 Jean Anouilh

Things are beautiful if you love them.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

I’ve always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

3 December 2020 Lee Iacocca

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

3 December 2020 William Hazlitt

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

3 December 2020 Mahalia Jackson

Money just draws flies.

3 December 2020 Ridley Pearson

For the first-time novelist you’ve got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.

3 December 2020 Newt Gingrich

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

3 December 2020 Raymond Chandler

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

3 December 2020 Louis D. Brandeis

Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.

3 December 2020 Richard Price

I’d love to be a saxophonist. I don’t know why, but I pretend I’m the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

3 December 2020 John Boyd Orr

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

3 December 2020 Toshihiko Fukui

The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

3 December 2020 Barbara Boxer

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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