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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Tony Robbins

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

3 December 2020 Tim Murphy

However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.

3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

3 December 2020 Vinton Cerf

At some point, you can’t lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

3 December 2020 Ann Richards

I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I’ve never thought before.

3 December 2020 St. Vincent

I’ve been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

3 December 2020 Tony Randall

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You’ve been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

3 December 2020 Joel Osteen

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

3 December 2020 Arthur Wing Pinero

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

3 December 2020 Peggy Fleming

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

3 December 2020 Man Ray

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

3 December 2020 Helen Hayes

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

3 December 2020 Robert Byrd

One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

3 December 2020 Nick Clegg

Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.

3 December 2020 Jason Schwartzman

I don’t know the first real thing about the dating game. I don’t know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

3 December 2020 Frederick William Robertson

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

3 December 2020 Peter Davison

But for me, being an editor I’ve been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

3 December 2020 Emily Procter

It’s a reality that in this business there’s an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it’s more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that’s just going to have to wait.

3 December 2020 Natalie Portman

Where I live, nobody who’s fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it’s so important to preserve your innocence.

3 December 2020 William James

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

3 December 2020 Emanuel Celler

Roosevelt’s humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

3 December 2020 Imelda Staunton

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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