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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Henry Ford

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

3 December 2020 Clarence Darrow

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

3 December 2020 Janet McTeer

When you’re a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

3 December 2020 Bernice Weissbourd

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

3 December 2020 Don Baylor

I’m going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

3 December 2020 Audrey Hepburn

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

3 December 2020 Stephen King

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

3 December 2020 Tupac Shakur

I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.

3 December 2020 Jean-Louis Barrault

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

3 December 2020 Jo Brand

The thing I thought about doing it was it’s Comic Relief and you’ve got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can’t sing.

3 December 2020 H. G. Wells

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

3 December 2020 Lisa Loeb

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I’d been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

3 December 2020 Dave Eggers

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

3 December 2020 Jan Peter Balkenende

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

Toleration is the best religion.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.

3 December 2020 Rick Larsen

My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.

3 December 2020 Jewel

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people’s truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

3 December 2020 Wendell Willkie

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

3 December 2020 James Earl Jones

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.

3 December 2020 Nancy Pelosi

We’re sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison

When my dad toured in ’91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.

3 December 2020 Ayrton Senna

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

3 December 2020 Beth Ditto

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing – just as my mom’s had before me, and her mom’s had before her.

3 December 2020 Beth Henley

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

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