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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Clyde Tombaugh

That’s the way I got along in life. I don’t ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can’t do it myself, I don’t deserve to get it.

3 December 2020 Tryon Edwards

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

3 December 2020 Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I’ll back up anything my dad says.

3 December 2020 John Malkovich

You can’t work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

3 December 2020 Johnny Rotten

It’s no good being nice and young and naive. There’s no good in that at all. You’ve got to do it all yourself, and you’ve gotta learn quick. And you can’t look for sympathy either.

3 December 2020 John Mica

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Garner

I wasn’t a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.

3 December 2020 John Dyer

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

3 December 2020 Robert Moog

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

3 December 2020 Francois Fenelon

A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

3 December 2020 Anatole France

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

3 December 2020 Richard Roeper

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

3 December 2020 Leon Panetta

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That’s really the measure of success for the United States.

3 December 2020 Milton Friedman

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

3 December 2020 Clay Aiken

I know that I’ve got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I’m happy with myself. I’m not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

3 December 2020 Bette Davis

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

3 December 2020 Jeanette Winterson

I don’t write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

3 December 2020 Joseph Joubert

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

3 December 2020 John le Carre

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn’t easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

3 December 2020 Isabelle Eberhardt

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.

3 December 2020 Edna Ferber

Life can’t defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death.

3 December 2020 Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.

3 December 2020 Beverley Mitchell

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.

3 December 2020 Donald Rumsfeld

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

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