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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

3 December 2020 Seymour Hersh

It doesn’t matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can’t speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

3 December 2020 Christian Bale

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

3 December 2020 Mitch Hedberg

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I’m upside down.

3 December 2020 David Bailey

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.

3 December 2020 Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

3 December 2020 Shirley Manson

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people’s bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

3 December 2020 Aly Khan

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

3 December 2020 Napoleon Hill

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

3 December 2020 Graham Swift

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

3 December 2020 Tony Robbins

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

3 December 2020 Lincoln Chafee

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans’ access to quality medical care.

3 December 2020 T-Pain

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

3 December 2020 Michael Caine

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you’ve made a whole new load of friends and she’s made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you’re kind of strangers.

3 December 2020 Franz Grillparzer

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

3 December 2020 Brad Pitt

I’d like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

3 December 2020 Alice Walker

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

3 December 2020 John Podhoretz

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke

Satire doesn’t effect change.

3 December 2020 Michelle Forbes

When I did ‘Battlestar Galactica’ it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn’t really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.

3 December 2020 Roy Rogers

What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?

3 December 2020 Cameron Crowe

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

3 December 2020 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

3 December 2020 Warren Beatty

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.

3 December 2020 David Livingstone

Fear God and work hard.

3 December 2020 Sylvia Plath

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

3 December 2020 Bill Maher

Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’

3 December 2020 Mike Krzyzewski

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that’s still what I do: teach.

3 December 2020 Warren Beatty

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they’re giving you an enema.

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