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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer’s patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

3 December 2020 Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

3 December 2020 Andrew Weil

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Shapiro

It’s to be a person who’s able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

3 December 2020 Steve Hackett

It’s funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can’t remember the exact years, it’s funny isn’t it?

3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

3 December 2020 Tom Wilson

A smile is a facelift that’s in everyone’s price range!

3 December 2020 Ayn Rand

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

3 December 2020 Anwar Sadat

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual – and the soul of a people.

3 December 2020 Mitt Romney

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it’s time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

3 December 2020 Mason Cooley

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

3 December 2020 Gabrielle Union

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

3 December 2020 Barbra Streisand

Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

3 December 2020 Al Gore

Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.

3 December 2020 Sam Rockwell

I had a great time with John Duigan he’s pretty amazing.

3 December 2020 Michelangelo Antonioni

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

3 December 2020 Mary Douglas

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

3 December 2020 David Miliband

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city’s magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

3 December 2020 Simon Raven

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

3 December 2020 Eliza Dushku

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

3 December 2020 Brad Delson

I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I’m pounding spring water.

3 December 2020 Serge Lang

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

3 December 2020 Morrie Schwartz

Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else.

3 December 2020 Kathy Najimy

I’d hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don’t have that right.

3 December 2020 Julie Bowen

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

3 December 2020 Ray Charles

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

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