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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Thomas Szasz

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

3 December 2020 Frederick Reines

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

3 December 2020 Edward de Bono

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

3 December 2020 David Byrne

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

3 December 2020 Maurice Chevalier

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold

Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

3 December 2020 Bindi Irwin

It’s every little girl’s dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It’s amazing.

3 December 2020 Jane Smiley

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don’t know any smokers now, not even my mom.

3 December 2020 Wallace Shawn

We’re in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

3 December 2020 Marcia Cross

I don’t want to lose my fitness. I’m 45. I have two babies. I’ve got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There’s no magic bullet.

3 December 2020 Dave Eggers

You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they’re smart people. But you don’t throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

3 December 2020 Dennis Quaid

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.

3 December 2020 Shaun Alexander

I think when you’re winning, your uniforms are cool.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

3 December 2020 Confucius

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

3 December 2020 Ian Mcewan

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

3 December 2020 Walt Disney

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

3 December 2020 Walt Disney

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

3 December 2020 Kristen Bell

I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn’t that funny? The tables have turned.

3 December 2020 Kelly Osbourne

I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word ‘YOU’ and I just put the letter ‘U’.

3 December 2020 William Blake

Exuberance is beauty.

3 December 2020 Adrian Cronauer

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.

3 December 2020 Sean Connery

I’m fed up with the idiots… the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

3 December 2020 Sri Mulyani Indrawati

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

3 December 2020 Dean Cain

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I’m a happy guy. It’s such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

3 December 2020 Ron Ben-Israel

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.

3 December 2020 Robert H. Schuller

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

3 December 2020 Anne M. Mulcahy

Employees are a company’s greatest asset – they’re your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company’s mission.

3 December 2020 Joel Osteen

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

3 December 2020 Francis Marion Crawford

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

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