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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Paul Harvey

Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five.

3 December 2020 James Marsters

In Europe they call geeks ‘smart people,’ and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn’t value intelligence enough so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.

3 December 2020 Carla Bley

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn’t as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

3 December 2020 Martin C. Smith

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it – London, the people of the south.

3 December 2020 Bill Murray

I don’t want to have a relationship with someone if I’m not going to work with them.

3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

3 December 2020 Christina Aguilera

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

3 December 2020 Jodie Foster

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

3 December 2020 Bill Pascrell

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

3 December 2020 Michael Moore

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it’s not good to limit the number of voices.

3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

3 December 2020 Clifford Stoll

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

3 December 2020 Andy Warhol

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

3 December 2020 Michel Foucault

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

3 December 2020 Sasha Cohen

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

3 December 2020 Jane Wagner

When we talk to God, we’re praying. When God talks to us, we’re schizophrenic.

3 December 2020 John Keats

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

3 December 2020 Babe Ruth

Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.

3 December 2020 Cary Grant

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

3 December 2020 Clay Aiken

Well, financially it’s a little bit better. But it’s better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of – it’s allowed me to buy a house. And I’ve been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that’s nice.

3 December 2020 Martha Beck

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

3 December 2020 Vita Sackville-West

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

3 December 2020 Tim Gunn

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with – don’t go to that level.

3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we’re man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

3 December 2020 Michael Clarke Duncan

I really don’t have favorites I’m just a fan of movies, period.

3 December 2020 Louisa May Alcott

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.

3 December 2020 Gwen Ifill

If it were the Clinton people, they’d be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

3 December 2020 Sheena Easton

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

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