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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Larry Bird

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

3 December 2020 Fran Drescher

I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

3 December 2020 Alfred Hitchcock

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

3 December 2020 Rob Corddry

The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You’re going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.

3 December 2020 Kevin Bacon

I’m obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

3 December 2020 Robert Penn Warren

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

3 December 2020 J. C. Watts

The establishment wonders why we can’t get more of the black vote. It’s because it’s not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don’t think alike. Most black people just vote alike.

3 December 2020 Patsy Cline

Boys, they can’t take my refrigerator now. They’ll never get my car now. I paid cash for ’em and they’re mine, and I’m keepin’ ’em!

3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

3 December 2020 Albert Schweitzer

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

3 December 2020 Conor Oberst

I’ve cried, and you’d think I’d be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

3 December 2020 Herb Alpert

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that’s the time to try to let other people know about it.

3 December 2020 E. B. White

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

3 December 2020 Edward Gibbon

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

3 December 2020 Peter Drucker

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

3 December 2020 Snoop Dogg

When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William’s marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. ‘Wet’ is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin’.

3 December 2020 Erich Fromm

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

3 December 2020 Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

3 December 2020 George Soros

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

3 December 2020 Alain de Botton

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

3 December 2020 Robert Frost

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

3 December 2020 Nate Silver

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

3 December 2020 Yoko Ono

Being alone is very difficult.

3 December 2020 Dennis Weaver

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn’t say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

3 December 2020 Sarah Ban Breathnach

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

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