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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Robert Crumb

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

3 December 2020 Tony Kanal

I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself.

3 December 2020 Steve Allen

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

3 December 2020 Jack Prelutsky

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry – it’s some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

3 December 2020 Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won’t be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

3 December 2020 Christopher Dawson

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

3 December 2020 Julia Louis-Dreyfus

The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.

3 December 2020 Craig Ferguson

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

3 December 2020 William E. Gladstone

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

3 December 2020 William Hazlitt

Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

3 December 2020 Anthony LaPaglia

I had a vocal coach. It’s a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

3 December 2020 George McGovern

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

3 December 2020 Kanye West

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‘You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.’

3 December 2020 Andy Rooney

The Super Bowl isn’t for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.

3 December 2020 William James

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

3 December 2020 David Cameron

I think we need to just be very clear about what we’re trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we’re not trying to create the perfect democracy. We’re never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

3 December 2020 Vincent Kartheiser

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don’t have a car I don’t really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

3 December 2020 Robin Wright Penn

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

3 December 2020 Ehud Barak

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

3 December 2020 Lee Iacocca

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

3 December 2020 Rita Rudner

My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head.

3 December 2020 Sidney Altman

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

3 December 2020 Christopher Marlowe

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

3 December 2020 Nicolas Cage

I don’t want to just do independent movies and I don’t want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

3 December 2020 Fran Lebowitz

Polite conversation is rarely either.

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