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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Joan Jett

I think what I’m going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock ‘n’ roll and do what I like to do in music.

3 December 2020 Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

You can never plan the future by the past.

3 December 2020 Lord Byron

Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?

3 December 2020 Marlee Matlin

It was my father who instilled the ‘never say no’ attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.

3 December 2020 Barbara Bush

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

3 December 2020 Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

3 December 2020 Johannes Stark

We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

3 December 2020 Dick Gregory

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free’?

3 December 2020 Claude Bernard

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

3 December 2020 John Naisbitt

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

3 December 2020 Doug Collins

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

3 December 2020 Abu Bakr

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

3 December 2020 Boris Kodjoe

Let’s say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

3 December 2020 Jim Carrey

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

3 December 2020 David Gerrold

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

3 December 2020 John Andrew Holmes

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

3 December 2020 Toby Young

I’ve become a professional failure – in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

3 December 2020 Shimon Peres

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

3 December 2020 Elton John

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin

I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Davis

I don’t believe in organized religion – I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.

3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

3 December 2020 George Washington

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

3 December 2020 Lee Child

You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.

3 December 2020 Mark Consuelos

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it’s inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you’re probably just as lame in your kids’ eyes.

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