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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

3 December 2020 Melody Beattie

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

3 December 2020 Frank Luntz

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That’s not what the American people want to hear.

3 December 2020 Eleanor Mondale

When you’re nearing 35, going, ‘Hey Dad, I can’t make these payments,’ just isn’t cool.

3 December 2020 Joe Pantoliano

It’s such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

3 December 2020 January Jones

Going to New York to do whatever – show business – it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn’t scared.

3 December 2020 Elias Canetti

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

3 December 2020 Charlie Haden

The bass, no matter what kind of music you’re playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

3 December 2020 Alexis Herman

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton’s leadership.

3 December 2020 Roger Sessions

But communication is two-sided – vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it… demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

3 December 2020 Dane Cook

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

3 December 2020 John Steinbeck

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

3 December 2020 Jenna Bush

It’s not like he called me up and asked me. They’ve never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I’d regret it if I didn’t do this.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Renner

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

3 December 2020 Sugar Ray Robinson

You always say ‘I’ll quit when I start to slide’, and then one morning you wake up and realize you’ve done slid.

3 December 2020 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

3 December 2020 Bart Starr

Anyone can support a team that is winning – it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

3 December 2020 Alfred Austin

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

3 December 2020 Tahar Ben Jelloun

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

3 December 2020 Arnold H. Glasow

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

3 December 2020 Eva Longoria

In my family, there was one cardinal priority – education. College was not an option it was mandatory. So even though we didn’t have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

3 December 2020 Ice Cube

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

3 December 2020 Martha Beck

You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

3 December 2020 James M. Barrie

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

3 December 2020 Leo Burnett

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its ‘product’ cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Netanyahu

I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It’s just moving on with its efforts.

3 December 2020 Ansel Adams

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

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