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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to – in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet – very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston

It’s a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

3 December 2020 Plato

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

3 December 2020 Jenna Bush

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

3 December 2020 Rupert Holmes

But thankfully, my first album, ‘Wide Screen,’ was sort of a critics’ darling – everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies I wasn’t even in the running for failure!

3 December 2020 Keith Thibodeaux

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Edwards

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

3 December 2020 Homer

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

3 December 2020 Sam Sheppard

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

3 December 2020 Bill Vaughan

Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

3 December 2020 Jason Lee

Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.

3 December 2020 Kristin Chenoweth

I’m constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion – to always be learning and growing.

3 December 2020 Virgil Thomson

I don’t care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

3 December 2020 Sue Johanson

Sex is… perfectly natural. It’s something that’s pleasurable. It’s enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don’t we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?

3 December 2020 Cliff Stearns

I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.

3 December 2020 Bar Refaeli

My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

3 December 2020 Eric Alterman

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

3 December 2020 Zach Galifianakis

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There’s just too much money.

3 December 2020 Emilio Estevez

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

3 December 2020 Diogenes

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

3 December 2020 Claudia Schiffer

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, ‘Would I wear it?’

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

3 December 2020 Louis C. K.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn’t choose to.

3 December 2020 J. Michael Straczynski

I’m delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn’t always do it in the way you expect.

3 December 2020 Lysander Spooner

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

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