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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Arnold Rothstein

Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone.

3 December 2020 Schuyler Fisk

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

3 December 2020 James Welch

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

3 December 2020 Kenneth Robert Livingstone

I’m in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.

3 December 2020 Seann William Scott

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

3 December 2020 Jean-Francois Lyotard

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That’s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

3 December 2020 Constantin Brancusi

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

3 December 2020 Lawrence Durrell

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

3 December 2020 Thomas Merton

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

3 December 2020 Joel Coen

I couldn’t have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn’t have been easier.

3 December 2020 John Podhoretz

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied – and to some extent overshadowed – by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

3 December 2020 Edgar Degas

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.

3 December 2020 Black Elk

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.

3 December 2020 William Ames

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

3 December 2020 Mary Wollstonecraft

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling

‘Harry Potter’ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

3 December 2020 Janet Street-Porter

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

3 December 2020 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Human nature is above all things lazy.

3 December 2020 Chaim Potok

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud’s view of man.

3 December 2020 Edward Bernays

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

3 December 2020 Herman Cain

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

3 December 2020 Michael Jordan

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

3 December 2020 Robert Kennedy

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

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