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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 George Carlin

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

3 December 2020 Danny Aiello

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don’t care where it is, when they look at me it’s not about my intelligence. It’s who can I beat up.

3 December 2020 Ron Fournier

Obama is capable – as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

3 December 2020 Joe DiMaggio

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

3 December 2020 Ruth Bader Ginsburg

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

3 December 2020 E. F. Schumacher

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

3 December 2020 Dennis Hastert

With more than 67 percent of the Nation’s freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

3 December 2020 J. Robert Oppenheimer

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

3 December 2020 Estella Warren

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it’s like learning everyday.

3 December 2020 Jenna Jameson

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

3 December 2020 Christopher Parker

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren’t too many stunts, just some doubling.

3 December 2020 Liz Phair

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women’s experience to be valuable.

3 December 2020 Thomas Browne

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

3 December 2020 Scott McClellan

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

3 December 2020 Arnold H. Glasow

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

3 December 2020 Diablo Cody

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I’ve been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

3 December 2020 Robert Delaunay

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

3 December 2020 Andrew Card

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

3 December 2020 Pat Metheny

The beauty of jazz is that it’s malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

3 December 2020 Colleen Atwood

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

3 December 2020 Mike Huckabee

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there’s a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

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