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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Richard Burton

I’ve done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

3 December 2020 Anthony Kiedis

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

3 December 2020 Pope Paul VI

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

3 December 2020 Michelle Shocked

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

3 December 2020 Bob Dylan

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

3 December 2020 Nicole Kidman

I think I would be very sad if I wasn’t able to have a baby.

3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg

If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

3 December 2020 Abbas Kiarostami

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling

Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I’ve been surprised at how much I’ve been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that’s true.

3 December 2020 Michael Bloomberg

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

3 December 2020 Mary Antin

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

3 December 2020 George Santayana

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

3 December 2020 Akira Kurosawa

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

3 December 2020 Kate Walsh

I don’t need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It’s very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

3 December 2020 Tom Perrotta

I read ‘The Great Gatsby’ in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

3 December 2020 Lena Dunham

I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

3 December 2020 Walter Annenberg

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

3 December 2020 Charles Williams

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

3 December 2020 W. Clement Stone

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

3 December 2020 Adriana Trigiani

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family… the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

3 December 2020 Anthony Holden

You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.

3 December 2020 Florence Welch

I try to write lyrics so that they won’t age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

3 December 2020 Richard Pryor

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything – millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

3 December 2020 Maria Montessori

The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’

3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding

I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I’d be so happy.

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