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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 William Scott

The one thing you’ve got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

3 December 2020 Robert Rauschenberg

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

3 December 2020 Immanuel Kant

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

3 December 2020 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

3 December 2020 Marguerite Young

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

3 December 2020 Roger Goodell

It’s not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

3 December 2020 Plato

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

3 December 2020 Otto von Bismarck

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it’s course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don’t want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

3 December 2020 John Gunther

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

3 December 2020 Danny Boyle

I’m a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

3 December 2020 Julie Burchill

From paying off friends’ tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing &pound20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can’t get rid of my money fast enough.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

3 December 2020 Robert Teeter

Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

3 December 2020 Freddie Mercury

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We’re lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

3 December 2020 Karel Capek

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you’d have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

3 December 2020 Naguib Mahfouz

I’ve never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

3 December 2020 Nahum Tate

Friendship’s the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

3 December 2020 Ellen Ochoa

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

3 December 2020 Placido Domingo

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.

3 December 2020 Lily Aldridge

It’s important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn’t do anything drastic.

3 December 2020 Steve Albini

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don’t want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.

3 December 2020 Mark Knopfler

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

3 December 2020 Ron Fournier

I’ve been leading newsrooms for a while now and it’s been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it – by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.

3 December 2020 Rashida Jones

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.

3 December 2020 Bobby Flay

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I’m also very proud of being a very American chef.

3 December 2020 Ricky Martin

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn’t even know existed.

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