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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

3 December 2020 William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

3 December 2020 Edward James Olmos

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.

3 December 2020 Bruce Lee

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

3 December 2020 Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

3 December 2020 Rita Dove

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who’ve gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

3 December 2020 Hugo Black

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

3 December 2020 Clive Owen

I couldn’t bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

3 December 2020 George Washington

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

3 December 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

3 December 2020 John Oates

In our relationship, we don’t have that situation. I don’t require what he needs, and he doesn’t require what I need. I know what I do I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

3 December 2020 Dean Koontz

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

3 December 2020 Edward Abbey

There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

3 December 2020 Eric Cantona

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

3 December 2020 will.i.am

If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family’s life but change your ghetto’s life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

3 December 2020 Bruce Dickinson

The mystical poetry of William Blake’s artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

3 December 2020 Jonathan Safran Foer

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

3 December 2020 Fran Lebowitz

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

3 December 2020 Brigitte Bardot

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

3 December 2020 Pola Negri

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.

3 December 2020 Will Durant

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

3 December 2020 Luigi Barzini

To put up a show is to face life’s injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

3 December 2020 Karl Rove

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

3 December 2020 Albert Brooks

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that’s all people know how to do when they’re improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

3 December 2020 Annie Lennox

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

3 December 2020 Robert Stack

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I’m not E.N., but I can promise you that I’m not Al Capone!

3 December 2020 John Ruskin

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Bentham

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

3 December 2020 Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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