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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Britney Spears

Justin Timberlake is everything, and what more could you want in a person? He’s funny. He’s cute. He’s great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me, and that’s cool.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

3 December 2020 Jourdan Dunn

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

3 December 2020 Barry Commoner

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

3 December 2020 Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says ‘I was beaten,’ he does not say ‘My men were beaten.’

3 December 2020 Nelson Goodman

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

3 December 2020 Jack Kevorkian

The Supreme Court of the United States… has validated the Nazi method of execution in… concentration camps, starving them to death.

3 December 2020 Mira Nair

We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.

3 December 2020 Cheech Marin

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that’s a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

3 December 2020 Doris Lessing

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

3 December 2020 James Taylor

I’m very unstable there’s no stability in a musician’s life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don’t know where your money’s coming from.

3 December 2020 Lisa Loeb

I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I’ve always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‘How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?’

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

3 December 2020 Herbie Hancock

I’m always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

3 December 2020 Lauren Conrad

I’ve actually spent a lot of time researching beauty products, how they are produced and how they are sold.

3 December 2020 Fantasia Barrino

I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

3 December 2020 John Harvey Kellogg

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher’s stall passes as food.

3 December 2020 Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton

My mom just didn’t put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

3 December 2020 Alicia Silverstone

I’d die if I was Madonna. I’d die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don’t know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

3 December 2020 Gloria Swanson

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

3 December 2020 Drew Curtis

The ‘wisdom of the crowds’ is the most ridiculous statement I’ve heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

3 December 2020 Morgan Freeman

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.

3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you’re fortunate – and both of us are – you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

3 December 2020 Ted Danson

We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

3 December 2020 Paul O'Grady

My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I’d rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney’s barber shop.

3 December 2020 George Henry Lewes

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

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