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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Alexei Navalny

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it’s merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

3 December 2020 Lucy Liu

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that’s why I don’t have a boyfriend.

3 December 2020 Jessica Chastain

I don’t want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.

3 December 2020 Walton Goggins

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

3 December 2020 Harold Pinter

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 – or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

3 December 2020 Jim Evans

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

3 December 2020 Jamie Muir

King Crimson were the only really famous band I’d been in.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

3 December 2020 Paul Gascoigne

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I’m learning to say I’ve got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

3 December 2020 J. Philippe Rushton

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

3 December 2020 Eugene O'Neill

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

3 December 2020 Marc Jacobs

In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I’m in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don’t have a lot of scope, and I’m really picky about what I wear.

3 December 2020 Abraham Maslow

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

3 December 2020 Andrew Bird

There’s a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

3 December 2020 Johann Lamont

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.

3 December 2020 Sammy Davis, Jr.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.

3 December 2020 Robert Anthony

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

3 December 2020 Audre Lorde

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

3 December 2020 Phyllis Schlafly

Our public school system is our country’s biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

3 December 2020 Henri Matisse

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

3 December 2020 Dougray Scott

You’d have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don’t make movies we do.

3 December 2020 Henry James

In art economy is always beauty.

3 December 2020 William Peter Blatty

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

3 December 2020 John B. S. Haldane

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

3 December 2020 Kirsty Coventry

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country’s flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.

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