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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Morgan Freeman

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

3 December 2020 Arnold J. Toynbee

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

3 December 2020 Karl A. Menninger

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

3 December 2020 Frank Zappa

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

3 December 2020 Johnny Mathis

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

3 December 2020 Clarence Day

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

3 December 2020 Loretta Lynn

I don’t like to talk about things where you’re going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

3 December 2020 Jonas Salk

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

3 December 2020 Jim Hodges

Color is an intense experience on its own.

3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring

The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.

3 December 2020 Mary Lou Retton

I love her attitude, but as much as I’d like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

3 December 2020 Abe Lemons

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him ‘Doctor.’

3 December 2020 Luis Barragan

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it’s not that hope is going to save you.

3 December 2020 George Allen, Sr.

Success is what you do with your ability. It’s how you use your talent.

3 December 2020 Gustav Stresemann

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

3 December 2020 Amelia Earhart

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

3 December 2020 David Byrne

We don’t make music – it makes us.

3 December 2020 Ville Valo

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

3 December 2020 Tom Ridge

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I’ve learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

3 December 2020 Waylon Jennings

Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.

3 December 2020 Harriet Ann Jacobs

But I now entered on my fifteenth year – a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

3 December 2020 Henri Cartier-Bresson

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

3 December 2020 Fred Allen

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

3 December 2020 Solon

I grow old learning something new every day.

3 December 2020 Lenny Bruce

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can’t fake it… try to fake three laughs in an hour – ha ha ha ha ha – they’ll take you away, man. You can’t.

3 December 2020 Mary Hart

It’s nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.

3 December 2020 Roald Dahl

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

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