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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Mariel Hemingway

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

3 December 2020 Dirk Kempthorne

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive – making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

3 December 2020 William Ellery Channing

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

3 December 2020 Gary Coleman

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader’s Digest… I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

3 December 2020 Ellen Pompeo

I didn’t have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.

3 December 2020 Howard Nemerov

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

3 December 2020 Christopher Nolan

The term ‘genre’ eventually becomes pejorative because you’re referring to something that’s so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

3 December 2020 Lily Tomlin

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

3 December 2020 Peter Carey

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It’s not really any very heady fame.

3 December 2020 Nicholas Brendon

As an actor, it’s more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It’s a lot more fun – you don’t worry about ‘what’s my hair like?’ in the morning or ‘which is my great angle?’

3 December 2020 Anita Roddick

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

3 December 2020 Michael Haneke

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I’m growing older, I’m just growing more impatient. I’ll be very happy if at some point people say, ‘Michael’s grown wiser and softer in his old age.’ But we’ll have to wait and see what my next project is.

3 December 2020 Vince Lombardi

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

3 December 2020 Jan de Bont

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn’t have the rights to the movie. I couldn’t duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Miller

The thing about science is that it’s an accurate picture of the world.

3 December 2020 Kelly McGillis

I think it’s sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

3 December 2020 Cindy Crawford

It’s important for moms to have alone time. However, that’s the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that’s the way my mind sees it.

3 December 2020 Dale Murphy

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

3 December 2020 Sidney Poitier

My father was very big on marriage.

3 December 2020 Beanie Sigel

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

3 December 2020 Mike Simpson

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they’ll offer at the negotiating table. There’s also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

3 December 2020 Carl Hiaasen

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don’t just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell

Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.

3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.

3 December 2020 Joe Rogan

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

3 December 2020 George M. Humphrey

You can’t set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

3 December 2020 Mark Foley

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

3 December 2020 G. Gordon Liddy

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

3 December 2020 Leighton Meester

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can’t just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don’t know them. It’s the same thing with a relationship.

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