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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Booker T. Washington

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

3 December 2020 Norman Douglas

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

3 December 2020 Quintus Ennius

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

3 December 2020 Elvis Presley

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

3 December 2020 Larry Wall

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they’ll do very well with it.

3 December 2020 Herb Alpert

I don’t think radio is selling records like they used to. They’d hawk the song and hawk the artist and you’d get so excited, you’d stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

3 December 2020 Margaret Atwood

War is what happens when language fails.

3 December 2020 Max Frisch

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.

3 December 2020 Yogi Berra

A lot of guys go, ‘Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.’ I tell ’em, ‘I don’t know any.’ They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know.

3 December 2020 Leona Lewis

I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.

3 December 2020 Andrea Thompson

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships – things like forgiveness and compassion.

3 December 2020 Tatjana Patitz

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven’t been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

3 December 2020 Epictetus

Only the educated are free.

3 December 2020 Harold S. Geneen

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

3 December 2020 Tom Brady

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

3 December 2020 H. G. Wells

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

3 December 2020 Lisa Loeb

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

3 December 2020 Little Richard

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

3 December 2020 Henry Adams

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

3 December 2020 Jean Baudrillard

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

3 December 2020 James Joyce

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

3 December 2020 Umberto Eco

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

3 December 2020 Paul Berg

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It’s the outcome of life.

3 December 2020 William J. Brennan, Jr.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

3 December 2020 Roseanne Barr

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

3 December 2020 Abdallah II

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real in which every human being can thrive in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

3 December 2020 Jenna Bush

I don’t think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

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