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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Steven Wright

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It’s in the apartment somewhere.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

3 December 2020 Epicurus

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

3 December 2020 Eminem

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

3 December 2020 Shaun White

I’ve always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.

3 December 2020 Prince William

No one is going to try to fill my mother’s shoes, what she did was fantastic. It’s about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.

3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated – like I didn’t have a community of artists.

3 December 2020 Emma Bunton

Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

3 December 2020 Mitch Hedberg

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain’t funny!

3 December 2020 Roger Ebert

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

3 December 2020 Jim Carrey

I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.

3 December 2020 Shahrukh Khan

I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.

3 December 2020 Maurice Strong

After all, sustainability means running the global environment – Earth Inc. – like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

3 December 2020 Lech Walesa

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

We cannot learn men from books.

3 December 2020 Georgina Chapman

My wedding was at home, so I didn’t really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

3 December 2020 Joan Collins

The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.

3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne

The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

3 December 2020 Chanel Iman

We always had ‘Vogue’ in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in ‘Vogue.’

3 December 2020 Lee R. Raymond

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

3 December 2020 Ray Romano

If golf wasn’t enjoyable and there wasn’t a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

3 December 2020 David Mamet

Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember.

3 December 2020 John Barrymore

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

3 December 2020 Octavia Spencer

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, ‘Maybe I want to be an actor’. And she said, ‘Maybe not that’.

3 December 2020 Christine Baranski

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He’s the most easygoing, lovely man, but he’s got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

3 December 2020 Simon Wiesenthal

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

3 December 2020 Doug Larson

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

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