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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Tony Campolo

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

3 December 2020 J. C. Watts

I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character – not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don’t think the political process could actually handle that.

3 December 2020 Joel Robuchon

I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this.

3 December 2020 John Dryden

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

3 December 2020 Dennis Miller

I rant, therefore I am.

3 December 2020 Alan Lakein

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

3 December 2020 John Salazar

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down – our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

3 December 2020 Oscar Pistorius

I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don’t want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.

3 December 2020 Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

3 December 2020 Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

3 December 2020 Aristotle Onassis

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

3 December 2020 Emma Watson

To be honest, I’ve always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I’ve earned my own money I’ve traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

3 December 2020 George Jones

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

3 December 2020 Paul Ryan

That’s what we do in this country. That’s the American Dream. That’s freedom, and I’ll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

3 December 2020 Bill Condon

Actually, I loved Chucky. It’s one of the strangest movies I’ve ever seen.

3 December 2020 Charlize Theron

When they watch a movie and they know that you’re in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

3 December 2020 Michael Jordan

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

3 December 2020 Steve Lacy

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn’t know that at first.

3 December 2020 Haley Joel Osment

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

3 December 2020 Carol Burnett

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

3 December 2020 Mother Jones

I believe that no man who holds a leader’s position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

3 December 2020 Oliver Goldsmith

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

3 December 2020 Gerald Jampolsky

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

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