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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Elihu Root

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

3 December 2020 John Gilmore

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That’s the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee – with physics and mathematics, not with laws – that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

3 December 2020 Jet Li

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

3 December 2020 Thomas Merton

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison

I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.

3 December 2020 George Crabbe

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

3 December 2020 Bob Riley

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

3 December 2020 Minoru Yamasaki

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

3 December 2020 Dame Edith Evans

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that’s what I want to give.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

3 December 2020 Robert Crais

I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I’ve never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me it felt disloyal.

3 December 2020 Sammy Davis, Jr.

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

3 December 2020 Steve Irwin

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

3 December 2020 James Hetfield

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we’re doing it for ourselves. We’re doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

3 December 2020 Lita Ford

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.

3 December 2020 Joe Rogan

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don’t know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

3 December 2020 Richard P. Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

3 December 2020 Anna Pavlova

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

3 December 2020 Elvis Stojko

My mom was a dancer, my dad’s a singer and I’ve always had that kind of music in my life.

3 December 2020 Otto Dix

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

3 December 2020 Robin Leach

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

3 December 2020 Paul Farmer

You can’t have public health without a public health system. We just don’t want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

3 December 2020 Antonio Tabucchi

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

3 December 2020 Mark Ruffalo

My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she’s hot, that’s a very human reaction, but you don’t go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it’s how you behave.

3 December 2020 Rainn Wilson

I know what I look like – a weird, sad clown puppet. I’m fine with that.

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