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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Michael Morpurgo

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don’t try to trip you up… they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do… if they’ve loved a story they love to know how it started.

3 December 2020 Jack Kevorkian

I hate to say this, but I’ll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

3 December 2020 Rodney Dangerfield

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer

Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.

3 December 2020 Edwin Louis Cole

Truth cannot be defeated.

3 December 2020 Woody Allen

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

3 December 2020 Dave Eggers

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it’s like to internalize all that chaos.

3 December 2020 Jerry Seinfeld

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

3 December 2020 Ashley Tisdale

When I was little, I saw the play ‘Les Miserables’ on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

3 December 2020 Camryn Manheim

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

3 December 2020 Hans Urs von Balthasar

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

3 December 2020 Confucius

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin

Health food makes me sick.

3 December 2020 Arthur Henderson

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

3 December 2020 Dave Mustaine

I was always the new kid in school, I’m the kid from a broken family, I’m the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I’m the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

3 December 2020 Phyllis George

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.

3 December 2020 John Dewey

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

3 December 2020 Mitt Romney

Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

3 December 2020 Suze Orman

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

3 December 2020 Ernie Banks

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.

3 December 2020 Amy Lowell

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.

3 December 2020 William S. Burroughs

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

3 December 2020 Julia Child

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you’re in a crowd, you’ll always have some clean air to breathe.

3 December 2020 Jean Rostand

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

3 December 2020 Casey Kasem

That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

3 December 2020 Rashida Jones

I have to say, you know, I’ve seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want – have their priorities change and want different things.

3 December 2020 Wentworth Miller

There has to be a measure of faith. That’s what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

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