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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Pia Zadora

Basically, I’m a romantic.

3 December 2020 Christiaan Barnard

Suffering isn’t ennobling, recovery is.

3 December 2020 James Collins

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

3 December 2020 Patty Murray

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

3 December 2020 Wallace Shawn

I don’t happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don’t know what’s funny about a character… This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

3 December 2020 Ossie Davis

Any form of art is a form of power it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.

3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

3 December 2020 Ken Kesey

The truth doesn’t have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

3 December 2020 Robert Orben

Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down.

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

But time growing old teaches all things.

3 December 2020 Michael Gove

The accumulation of cultural capital – the acquisition of knowledge – is the key to social mobility.

3 December 2020 Joe Jonas

I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.

3 December 2020 Georges Simenon

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

3 December 2020 Boss Tweed

The way to have power is to take it.

3 December 2020 Jenson Button

The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that’s where a Formula One car is at its best – changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

3 December 2020 L'Wren Scott

I’ve never met a woman who thinks they’ve got a good enough figure – however perfect they look – which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws they’re entirely internal.

3 December 2020 Craig Ferguson

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

3 December 2020 Charles Lindbergh

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

3 December 2020 Willie Aames

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

3 December 2020 Ethel Waters

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

3 December 2020 Paul Valery

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

3 December 2020 Robert Kennedy

If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

3 December 2020 Lucy Liu

Men, when they fight in movies, it’s a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn’t take your eyes off of him.

3 December 2020 Magic Johnson

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

3 December 2020 Alan K. Simpson

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

3 December 2020 Johnny Knoxville

People go to car races to watch the crashes.

3 December 2020 George A. Moore

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

3 December 2020 Alexander Hamilton

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

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