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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Spike Milligan

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

3 December 2020 Barbara Kingsolver

At home, growing up, we weren’t really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn’t have what we wanted.

3 December 2020 Serena Williams

It’s always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.

3 December 2020 Sallust

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

3 December 2020 Holly Johnson

To see a player dunk in women’s college basketball is just amazing. It’s great to see that the game has reached that level now.

3 December 2020 Cecilia Bartoli

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

3 December 2020 Bil Keane

A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.

3 December 2020 Sargent Shriver

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

3 December 2020 Timothy McVeigh

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

3 December 2020 Mike Myers

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I’m not going to deny myself that. I think I’d be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

3 December 2020 Daniel Hannan

The U.S. states that allow for citizens’ initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don’t. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

3 December 2020 Edvard Munch

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

3 December 2020 Jim Bakker

You can’t fake it when you’re alone with God, you know.

3 December 2020 Wynonna Judd

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

3 December 2020 Kathy Valentine

It’s very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship – whether it’s a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

3 December 2020 Warren Buffett

We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

3 December 2020 Billy Sunday

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

3 December 2020 Edward Albee

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

3 December 2020 David Seabury

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

3 December 2020 Jonny Lang

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band – one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

3 December 2020 Hugh Sidey

The legions of reporters who cover politics don’t want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

3 December 2020 Andrea Dworkin

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

3 December 2020 Lily Tomlin

I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.

3 December 2020 Norman Ralph Augustine

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

3 December 2020 Bill Frist

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

3 December 2020 Michael Bloomberg

You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country’s success.

3 December 2020 Bobby Scott

It is virtually impossible to compete in today’s global economy without a college degree.

3 December 2020 J. B. Priestley

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile.

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