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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 John Sununu

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

3 December 2020 Norman Vincent Peale

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

3 December 2020 Josephine Baker

I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

3 December 2020 Gene Fowler

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled.

3 December 2020 Rodney Dangerfield

I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

3 December 2020 Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

3 December 2020 Aisha Tyler

My parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

3 December 2020 Katy Perry

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it’s not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I’m going to be married and buried there.

3 December 2020 Lady Gaga

My mom and I are very close.

3 December 2020 David Rudisha

I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

3 December 2020 Ellen DeGeneres

I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

3 December 2020 Ron Perlman

The thing that’s cool about the recording booth is that it’s so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.

3 December 2020 Alfred A. Montapert

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

3 December 2020 Joan Collins

I think it has something to do with being British. We don’t take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously I find that a very tedious attitude.

3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy

It’s always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

3 December 2020 Evan Esar

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

3 December 2020 Mary Baker Eddy

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

3 December 2020 Florence Kelley

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

3 December 2020 Jim Jarmusch

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn’t play, it has a poignancy to it.

3 December 2020 Constance Rourke

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality – you’re told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

3 December 2020 Tiger Woods

My mom was tough.

3 December 2020 Charles Kettering

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

3 December 2020 William Alexander Henry

Look at an infantryman’s eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

3 December 2020 Nick Park

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

3 December 2020 James M. Baldwin

Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere

We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

3 December 2020 Alan Dundes

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

3 December 2020 Meryl Streep

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

3 December 2020 Izabel Goulart

Modeling has given me the opportunity to travel outside of Brazil and see the world. I have been meeting many interesting and talented people along the way.

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