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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Linda Ellerbee

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

3 December 2020 Billy Preston

I’m playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don’t have to sing it. I just have to play it. That’s cool.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert

I know I’m not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I’m not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that’s when the mental illness arrives.

3 December 2020 William Cobbett

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

3 December 2020 Martha Graham

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

3 December 2020 Buenaventura Durruti

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

3 December 2020 Keith Richards

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can’t do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

3 December 2020 Zelda Fitzgerald

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

3 December 2020 Cesare Pavese

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

3 December 2020 John Dryden

War is the trade of Kings.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hatred is inveterate anger.

3 December 2020 Robert Teeter

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

3 December 2020 Edward Tufte

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

3 December 2020 Chris Christie

It’s not that I’m universally loved. We know I’m not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, ‘We like him, and we think he’s telling us the truth.’ I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

3 December 2020 Joan Chen

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

3 December 2020 Thierry Henry

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

3 December 2020 Alton Brown

The worst food you’ll ever eat will probably be prepared by a ‘cook’ who calls himself a ‘chef.’ Mark my words.

3 December 2020 Prescott Bush

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

3 December 2020 Laurence J. Peter

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

3 December 2020 Jeb Bush

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people – segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

3 December 2020 Alan Thicke

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

3 December 2020 Thomas Frank

Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the ‘Waterloo’ Republicans dream of.

3 December 2020 Tom Shadyac

Technology is not good, it’s neutral.

3 December 2020 Jim Lehrer

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960’s.

3 December 2020 Rainn Wilson

The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

3 December 2020 Paul Wolfowitz

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, ‘impose democracy.’ We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

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