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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Bob McDonnell

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

3 December 2020 Barney Frank

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen

Around ’93, ’94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

3 December 2020 Barry White

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.

3 December 2020 Larry King

Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.

3 December 2020 Susan B. Anthony

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

3 December 2020 Henry Miller

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

3 December 2020 Coco Chanel

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

3 December 2020 Dannii Minogue

Everyone has determination – it’s a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering she doesn’t care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we’re very, very different.

3 December 2020 Booboo Stewart

Pet stores just sell their animals.

3 December 2020 Abraham Joshua Heschel

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

3 December 2020 Allen Ginsberg

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

3 December 2020 Thomas Szasz

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.

3 December 2020 Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

3 December 2020 Damon Wayans

I never thought about being famous.

3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

3 December 2020 Anna Kendrick

I’m the person who wouldn’t send back my food even if I got steak when I’d ordered fish.

3 December 2020 William Pollard

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

3 December 2020 Dennis Hastert

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

3 December 2020 Marvin Olasky

On sensitive issues, talk isn’t cheap – it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe

Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

3 December 2020 Anna Lindh

The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.

3 December 2020 Denis Diderot

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

3 December 2020 Roger Ebert

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

3 December 2020 John Milton

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don’t think its fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define.

3 December 2020 Paul Ryan

So here’s the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

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