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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Education is the art of making man ethical.

3 December 2020 Jim Lampley

I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we’re going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year.

3 December 2020 Michael Haneke

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

3 December 2020 Branch Rickey

Luck is the residue of design.

3 December 2020 James Q. Wilson

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

3 December 2020 Ashley Montagu

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

3 December 2020 Tom Perrotta

I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.

3 December 2020 Igor Stravinsky

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

3 December 2020 James Dean

To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

3 December 2020 Lee Trevino

Golf isn’t just my business, it’s my hobby.

3 December 2020 Mario Batali

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

3 December 2020 Jennifer O'Neill

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

3 December 2020 Warren G. Bennis

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

3 December 2020 Anita Hill

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

3 December 2020 Democritus

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

3 December 2020 Alan King

Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

3 December 2020 Andrea Dworkin

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

3 December 2020 John Updike

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer

Man was nature’s mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

3 December 2020 Brendan Coyle

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

3 December 2020 Monica Edwards

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

3 December 2020 Felix Baumgartner

Heroes don’t wear diapers. It’s just not cool.

3 December 2020 Sugar Ray Leonard

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.

3 December 2020 Peter Mullan

As a dad I’m emotionally dedicated but I’m not ‘figuring out their life plans’. But of course as I’m telling them about the rights of wrongs I’m thinking back to what I was like at their age.

3 December 2020 Anthony Trollope

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

3 December 2020 Thomas Keller

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

3 December 2020 Isabelle Fuhrman

I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She’s like the eyebrow police!

3 December 2020 Daniel J. Boorstin

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

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