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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Rashida Jones

I don’t think that there’s been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it’s done them any good.

3 December 2020 Dante Hall

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg

I’ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself.

3 December 2020 Eric Davis

It’s easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they’re saying that they don’t respect you. You have to change their thinking.

3 December 2020 Mike Wallace

As I approach my 88th birthday, it’s become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren’t quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

3 December 2020 John Calvin

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

3 December 2020 Sting

I can’t really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don’t see why I should.

3 December 2020 P. G. Wodehouse

Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

3 December 2020 Camille Paglia

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

3 December 2020 Billy Joel

In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.

3 December 2020 Tiki Barber

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

3 December 2020 Amanda Seyfried

Marriage, at this point in my life? I’m not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I’m 35 or 40.

3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison

Religion is all bunk.

3 December 2020 Gael Garcia Bernal

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn’t play that way. It’s about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

3 December 2020 Lisa Kudrow

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

3 December 2020 Jane Smiley

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer’s is coming mocks all one’s aspirations – to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one’s accomplishments and hard work – in a way that old familiar death does not.

3 December 2020 Tia Carrere

Doors open because you’re beautiful, but I wouldn’t cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

3 December 2020 Martin Yan

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

3 December 2020 Martha Scott

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

3 December 2020 Bernard Baruch

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

3 December 2020 Tony Wilson

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it’s nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

3 December 2020 George Grosz

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

3 December 2020 Trishelle Cannatella

But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.

3 December 2020 Mae West

A woman in love can’t be reasonable – or she probably wouldn’t be in love.

3 December 2020 Joseph Beuys

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

3 December 2020 Amy Sedaris

People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.

3 December 2020 Christina Aguilera

I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – that’s a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

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