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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony.

3 December 2020 Duke Ellington

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

3 December 2020 Kat Dennings

My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.

3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they’re both subcorporate music – I mean, traditionally.

3 December 2020 Samuel Goldwyn

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

3 December 2020 Camille Paglia

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn’t repel them.

3 December 2020 Hilaire Belloc

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

3 December 2020 B. R. Ambedkar

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

3 December 2020 Ashley Tisdale

I don’t really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don’t call the guy until he calls you. I don’t think it’s like he’s got to do this and that’s the rule.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

I’m one of those people who thinks that changing one’s hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

3 December 2020 Ravi Shankar

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

3 December 2020 Tim Heidecker

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It’s just not the way we really behave.

3 December 2020 Seth Rogen

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He’s pretty amazing.

3 December 2020 Hannah More

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

3 December 2020 George Porter

Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Bentham

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

3 December 2020 Phyllis Diller

There’s so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

3 December 2020 Brigitte Bardot

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

3 December 2020 George Jean Nathan

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

3 December 2020 David Hilbert

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom – that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

3 December 2020 Pietro Aretino

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

3 December 2020 Josefina Vazquez Mota

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is ‘How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?’ I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

3 December 2020 Ivan Reitman

I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out – which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous – there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.

3 December 2020 William Feather

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

3 December 2020 Tim McGraw

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

3 December 2020 Kent Nerburn

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

3 December 2020 Kristi Yamaguchi

I’m kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that’s just how I am.

3 December 2020 Kid Rock

Being a father helps me be more responsible… you see more things than you’ve ever seen.

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