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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Lee Konitz

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

3 December 2020 Ted Williams

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

3 December 2020 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

3 December 2020 Leslie Fiedler

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

3 December 2020 Emilio Estevez

I’m not a Luddite, but I’m outside more than I’m on my computer. We have a micro-farm – it’s a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

3 December 2020 Jose Carreras

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

3 December 2020 Ice Cube

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

3 December 2020 Sebastian Vettel

I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don’t have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.

3 December 2020 Germaine Greer

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.

3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

3 December 2020 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

3 December 2020 Paul Wolfowitz

China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don’t believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don’t believe they do fear the United States.

3 December 2020 Rudy Giuliani

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

3 December 2020 Warwick Davis

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it’s what you need when, well, it’s what anyone needs in this world.

3 December 2020 Anna Lindh

States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.

3 December 2020 Bobby Orr

We’re going to have more kids playing, and we’re going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

3 December 2020 Jeffrey Archer

I put &pound150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back &pound1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

3 December 2020 Nicole Polizzi

I’ll always be this crazy, fun person, but when it’s time to get married, I’m going to be an amazing wife.

3 December 2020 Rachel Hunter

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we’re supposed to be monogamous when we’re not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

3 December 2020 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

3 December 2020 Morgan Freeman

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

3 December 2020 Peter O'Toole

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

3 December 2020 Audrey Hepburn

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

3 December 2020 Edward de Bono

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

3 December 2020 Henry Reed

I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

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