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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Xun Zi

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

3 December 2020 Sting

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

3 December 2020 William J. H. Boetcker

Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

3 December 2020 Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur

In war there is no substitute for victory.

3 December 2020 Kristin Hersh

That’s my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

3 December 2020 Talcott Parsons

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact – hence changing general statements about it – and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

3 December 2020 John Mason Good

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

3 December 2020 Phil McGraw

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.

3 December 2020 Plato

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

3 December 2020 Henry Van Dyke

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

3 December 2020 Francesca Annis

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family… they are nearly always seen as victims.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

3 December 2020 Jodi Picoult

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

3 December 2020 Ayn Rand

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

3 December 2020 Doug Larson

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

3 December 2020 William Samuel Johnson

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

3 December 2020 Dirk Benedict

Movies are movies, television is television.

3 December 2020 Richard Attenborough

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I’m safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

3 December 2020 Marilyn Manson

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn’t have previously.

3 December 2020 Chuck Barris

There’s tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

3 December 2020 Matthew Sweet

Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around ’92 and ’96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.

3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola

We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

3 December 2020 Madonna Ciccone

I get strength from my art – all the paintings I own are powerful.

3 December 2020 Judith Rossner

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It’s harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

3 December 2020 Mike Piazza

Never let your dreams go away.

3 December 2020 Edwin Louis Cole

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

3 December 2020 Al Pacino

It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

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