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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Gregory Hines

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

3 December 2020 Christopher Columbus

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

3 December 2020 Simone Weil

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

3 December 2020 Orlando Bloom

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that’s the way they’re done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

3 December 2020 Harold S. Geneen

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.

3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

3 December 2020 Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

3 December 2020 Orson Welles

If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent – important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

3 December 2020 Giada De Laurentiis

I wasn’t looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

3 December 2020 Dick Dale

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

3 December 2020 George H. W. Bush

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

3 December 2020 Nicole Kidman

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

3 December 2020 Elisabetta Canalis

I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

3 December 2020 Bill Frist

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

3 December 2020 Frank McCourt

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

3 December 2020 Alexander Wang

The industry’s changed so much that you can’t just design something, put on a great show, and say, ‘Okay, my job is done.’

3 December 2020 Lois Wyse

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you’re the one in the green dress.

3 December 2020 Bobby Vinton

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

3 December 2020 Kathleen Turner

It begins and ends with money. It’s absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It’s obscene.

3 December 2020 Martha Beck

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

3 December 2020 Sarah Silverman

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It’s funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I’m not religious at all. I have no religion.

3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

3 December 2020 Lech Walesa

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

3 December 2020 Frances Wright

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

3 December 2020 Walter Bagehot

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

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