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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Rachel True

That’s double-edged: it’s amazing that they’re bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it’s a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I’m not going to get those roles.

3 December 2020 Wilson Mizner

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

3 December 2020 Jane D. Hull

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

3 December 2020 Rand Paul

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

3 December 2020 Joan Jett

I think I was born strong-willed. That’s not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

3 December 2020 Alice Paul

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

3 December 2020 George Sand

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

3 December 2020 Antonio Banderas

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

3 December 2020 Marvin Gaye

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

3 December 2020 Gregory Bateson

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

3 December 2020 Ne-Yo

Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.

3 December 2020 Sun Tzu

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

Love is the poetry of the senses.

3 December 2020 Bill Cosby

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

3 December 2020 Vince Gill

The real beauty of it – key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

3 December 2020 Drew Barrymore

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, ‘You’re not a father.’ I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

3 December 2020 Jason Mraz

Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn’t feel like a job. So I did that.

3 December 2020 Lewis Mumford

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

3 December 2020 Henry Fonda

My whole damn family was nice. I don’t think I’ve imagined it. It’s true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

3 December 2020 Malcolm Fraser

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

3 December 2020 Merle Haggard

When I grew up there wasn’t air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

3 December 2020 Jodie Foster

I’ve always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

3 December 2020 Edwin Way Teale

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

3 December 2020 Neil LaBute

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they’re reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

3 December 2020 Nigel Farage

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

3 December 2020 John Charles Polanyi

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

3 December 2020 Ivan Turgenev

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

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