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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Robert De Niro

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they’re running the asylum.

3 December 2020 Ovid

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.

3 December 2020 Publilius Syrus

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

3 December 2020 Jerzy Kosinski

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

3 December 2020 Julia Roberts

I don’t get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there’s always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

3 December 2020 Samuel Goldwyn

This music won’t do. There’s not enough sarcasm in it.

3 December 2020 Christina Aguilera

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

3 December 2020 Marcel Duchamp

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

3 December 2020 Loretta Young

I’m grateful to God for His bountiful gifts… He gave me courage and faith in myself.

3 December 2020 Leonardo DiCaprio

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

3 December 2020 Mary McCormack

I’ve done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I’ve found no evidence that it brings happiness.

3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball – just spend a lot more time with my family.

3 December 2020 Buddy Holly

I’m not trying to stump anybody… it’s the beauty of the language that I’m interested in.

3 December 2020 Christopher Morley

There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen.

3 December 2020 Christopher Walken

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don’t think you can think about that. I don’t think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

3 December 2020 Scott Walker

I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.

3 December 2020 Winston Churchill

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

3 December 2020 Josh Billings

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

3 December 2020 James Hillman

Just stop for a minute and you’ll realize you’re happy just being. I think it’s the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it’s right here.

3 December 2020 Katey Sagal

I do a lot of writing about my family.

3 December 2020 Carrie P. Snow

Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

3 December 2020 Andrea Jung

I feel like I’m part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, ‘I’ve got to do a better job.’

3 December 2020 Rick Perry

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

3 December 2020 Don Nickles

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

3 December 2020 Buddha

Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

3 December 2020 Lucinda Williams

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they’re ready.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

3 December 2020 Theresa May

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

3 December 2020 Christian Nestell Bovee

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

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