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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Dean Kamen

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

3 December 2020 Laura Wilkinson

I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

3 December 2020 Avi Arad

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

3 December 2020 Bobby Bowden

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can’t explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can’t coach.

3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.

3 December 2020 Joseph Joubert

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

3 December 2020 Jim Rohn

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

3 December 2020 Demetri Martin

I like women, but you can’t always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog’s name and then I asked, ‘Does he bite?’ and she said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘So how does he eat?’ Liar!

3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

3 December 2020 E. M. Forster

History develops, art stands still.

3 December 2020 Cher

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

3 December 2020 Emil Zatopek

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It’s raining? That doesn’t matter. I am tired? That’s besides the point. It’s simply that I just have to.

3 December 2020 William Shenstone

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

3 December 2020 Robert Teeter

The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.

3 December 2020 Bill Kreutzmann

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

3 December 2020 Max Beerbohm

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

3 December 2020 Michael Mandelbaum

Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

3 December 2020 Mitch McConnell

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They’re both problem countries we know that. And this doesn’t change anything.

3 December 2020 Fiona Apple

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I’m 19?

3 December 2020 Emile M. Cioran

Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs once acquired it can imprison us.

3 December 2020 Doug Coupland

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

3 December 2020 Ian Hamilton Finlay

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

3 December 2020 Howard Dean

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

3 December 2020 Ethan Hawke

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

3 December 2020 David Brainerd

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

3 December 2020 David Duchovny

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

3 December 2020 Shannon Lucid

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

3 December 2020 Lance Bass

In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

3 December 2020 Alex Grey

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

3 December 2020 Paulo Freire

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

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