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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Angela Davis

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

3 December 2020 K. D. Lang

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it’s really amazing. I don’t take that for granted.

3 December 2020 Berenice Abbott

Does not the very word ‘creative’ mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death.

3 December 2020 David Russell

The present is a point just passed.

3 December 2020 Chris Evans

You know, the reward for ‘Captain America’ is amazing. It’s always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff – the special effects.

3 December 2020 Sidney Lanier

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

3 December 2020 Hugh Hefner

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

3 December 2020 Len G. Murray

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let’s get on with it.

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

3 December 2020 Quentin Crisp

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

3 December 2020 Alan Perlis

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

3 December 2020 Naomi Judd

It’s so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.

3 December 2020 Buffalo Bill

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

3 December 2020 Nick Cannon

You have to be vigorous. That’s the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don’t take no for an answer.

3 December 2020 Valentino Rossi

I don’t like being famous – it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

3 December 2020 Sam Snead

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

3 December 2020 Eminem

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‘I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.’

3 December 2020 Cal Thomas

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.

3 December 2020 Norman Cousins

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life.

3 December 2020 Paul Dudley White

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

3 December 2020 Desiderius Erasmus

Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.

3 December 2020 George W. Bush

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

3 December 2020 Stevie Nicks

I want to be age appropriate. I don’t want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

3 December 2020 Bjork

But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.

3 December 2020 Philip K. Dick

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

3 December 2020 Peggy Noonan

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

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