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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Alice Hoffman

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work – but then when you’re working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you’re with your children, you’re thinking about working.

3 December 2020 Immanuel Kant

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

3 December 2020 Gael Garcia Bernal

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

3 December 2020 Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

3 December 2020 Christa McAuliffe

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

3 December 2020 Dale Carnegie

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

3 December 2020 Jenny Agutter

But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film’s about. A very straightforward young woman who’s very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.

3 December 2020 Helen Keller

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

3 December 2020 Scott Turow

Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.

3 December 2020 Carla Gugino

I love doing serious movies for adults.

3 December 2020 Garth Brooks

It’s funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

3 December 2020 La Monte Young

If listeners aren’t carried away to Heaven, I’m failing.

3 December 2020 Bianca Jagger

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

3 December 2020 Alicia Machado

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

3 December 2020 George Will

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

3 December 2020 Andre Breton

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

3 December 2020 Jared Diamond

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book… and I began putting more work into environmental history.

3 December 2020 Corey Feldman

I’d say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

3 December 2020 Rachael Ray

Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet – the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

3 December 2020 Louis C. K.

I don’t think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

3 December 2020 Paul Tillich

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

3 December 2020 Peter Berger

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

3 December 2020 Miriam Makeba

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won’t get run over.

3 December 2020 Christopher Walken

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn’t have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn’t want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

3 December 2020 Ayn Rand

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

3 December 2020 Joan Didion

I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

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