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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Robert Wyatt

Being big and famous doesn’t get you more freedom, it gets you less.

3 December 2020 Louis L'Amour

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

3 December 2020 Bret Harte

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

3 December 2020 Carl Lewis

I always separated sports and my personal life.

3 December 2020 Charles Kuralt

I don’t have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

3 December 2020 Susan Orlean

I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I’ll probably be given jewelry instead.

3 December 2020 Tom Peters

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

3 December 2020 John Spratt

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

3 December 2020 Amy Irving

I used to travel in tennis shoes I am just not allowed to anymore. I’m an old hippie from San Francisco.

3 December 2020 John Locke

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

3 December 2020 Norah Jones

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that’s all that matters.

3 December 2020 Lev Yilmaz

I don’t personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn’t having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

3 December 2020 Scotty McCreery

I love singin’ in the car, it just makes me feel good.

3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

3 December 2020 James Cameron

There are many talented people who haven’t fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

3 December 2020 Plato

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

3 December 2020 Jack Kemp

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I’d already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

3 December 2020 Alison Sweeney

We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like ‘The Biggest Loser’ and even ‘Amazing Race.’ You learn a lot about the world, it’s fun and nobody’s interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I’m a huge fan of ‘Survivor.’

3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

3 December 2020 Adam Carolla

I don’t know anything about computers.

3 December 2020 Leonard Cohen

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you’re not and that’s what you always reach for in a song.

3 December 2020 Pete Coors

We’ve got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

3 December 2020 Patrick Duffy

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

3 December 2020 LL Cool J

The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

3 December 2020 Billy Tauzin

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

3 December 2020 Anatole France

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

3 December 2020 Tom Holt

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I’ve managed to grow out of.

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