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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

3 December 2020 John Ruskin

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

3 December 2020 Dave Barry

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

3 December 2020 Lee Myung-bak

What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people’s trust in North Korea has gone down considerably.

3 December 2020 Milton Friedman

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

3 December 2020 Mika Brzezinski

I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.

3 December 2020 Archie Panjabi

I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

3 December 2020 John Erskine

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

3 December 2020 Sharon Stone

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them – the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

3 December 2020 Joan Lunden

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

3 December 2020 Mikhail Baryshnikov

When I’m alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

3 December 2020 Samuel Richardson

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

3 December 2020 Frank Zappa

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

3 December 2020 Coco Chanel

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

3 December 2020 Jeff Ross

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn’t offend somebody it’s probably not a joke. It’s probably an observation that’s not funny. It’s gotta offend somebody somewhere.

3 December 2020 J. D. Salinger

I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Wurtzel

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

3 December 2020 David Attenborough

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

3 December 2020 William P. Leahy

We are the meeting place, an entity that’s trying to connect faith and culture.

3 December 2020 Carl Friedrich Gauss

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

3 December 2020 Albert Ellis

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they’re alive and human.

3 December 2020 Lisa Loeb

Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?

3 December 2020 Lou Gehrig

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can’t keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

3 December 2020 Nicki Minaj

I’ve always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13.

3 December 2020 Robert Doisneau

Nowadays people’s visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

3 December 2020 Trey Parker

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call ‘lightly religious.’ So I don’t buy the notion that we can’t laugh about religion in America.

3 December 2020 Leo Buscaglia

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

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