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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Sherman Alexie

I don’t have to participate in another culture’s ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

3 December 2020 Emma Roberts

I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she’s done a lot of small movies but she’s also done great, big movies, and she’s a really great actress.

3 December 2020 Anna Julia Cooper

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

3 December 2020 John Zorn

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

3 December 2020 Bernardo Bertolucci

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.

3 December 2020 Marie Carmichael Stopes

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul’s doing.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

3 December 2020 P. J. Harvey

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and… I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.

3 December 2020 Bobby Knight

I’m an unemployed teacher right now and I’m looking for a place to teach.

3 December 2020 Hiram Johnson

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

3 December 2020 Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

3 December 2020 Bell Hooks

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

3 December 2020 Igor Stravinsky

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

3 December 2020 Herodotus

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

3 December 2020 Amy Klobuchar

So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we’re putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they’re 40 years old. Well, that’s just not going to happen.

3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It’s simply a market chart.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston

I want to see friends more and travel more.

3 December 2020 Jhonen Vasquez

I don’t particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that’s cool, but I don’t do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

3 December 2020 Arthur Miller

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

3 December 2020 Robert Ripley

My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

3 December 2020 Alexander Hamilton

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

3 December 2020 James Levine

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

3 December 2020 James Branch Cabell

Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.

3 December 2020 Raymond Chandler

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

3 December 2020 Kenneth L. Pike

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

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