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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Alton Brown

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy – and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

3 December 2020 Carlos Castaneda

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that.

3 December 2020 Donald Norman

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

3 December 2020 Roger Tory Peterson

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble.

3 December 2020 Cab Calloway

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody’s interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

3 December 2020 Johan Huizinga

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

3 December 2020 Brendan Coyle

I left school at 16 but I wish I’d gone to university – I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don’t think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

3 December 2020 Andrew Shue

I was on Oprah’s show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn’t even go into my family, who had the most influence.

3 December 2020 Christina Ricci

Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I’m very familiar with the Beatles Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.

3 December 2020 Arnold H. Glasow

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

3 December 2020 Steven Tyler

I’m not sure about the selling part, but I’ve always found that the things I’ve worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.

3 December 2020 Michael Ignatieff

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

3 December 2020 Warren Buffett

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

3 December 2020 Richard Bach

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.

3 December 2020 Thornton Wilder

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

3 December 2020 Herodotus

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Lopez

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

3 December 2020 Robert H. Schuller

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

3 December 2020 Sarah Jessica Parker

I’m very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I’m worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

3 December 2020 Moon Unit Zappa

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

3 December 2020 Brittany Daniel

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

3 December 2020 Ninon de L'Enclos

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

3 December 2020 John Paul Stevens

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

3 December 2020 Freeman Dyson

The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.

3 December 2020 Bashar al-Assad

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

3 December 2020 Samantha Stosur

I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

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