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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 George Eliot

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

3 December 2020 Paul Valery

War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.

3 December 2020 Carrie Underwood

It’s nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

3 December 2020 Rand Paul

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

3 December 2020 Kendrick Meek

Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

3 December 2020 John Philip Sousa

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

3 December 2020 Stokely Carmichael

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

3 December 2020 Jhene Aiko

As I got older, I really got into Tupac’s poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

3 December 2020 Thomas Hardy

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can’t get out of it if we would.

3 December 2020 Erykah Badu

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I’m a good person to society. That’s hard. The talent, that’s a gift. I just came here like that.

3 December 2020 Zhuangzi

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

3 December 2020 Michael Hutchence

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

3 December 2020 David Hasselhoff

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff – and it’s out of respect.

3 December 2020 V. S. Naipaul

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it’s O.K., but it’s of no account.

3 December 2020 Suzy Bogguss

I’m a real Suzy Homemaker.

3 December 2020 Robert Orben

Never raise your hand to your children – it leaves your midsection unprotected.

3 December 2020 Eliza Dushku

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It’s a cool age.

3 December 2020 Alan Watts

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

3 December 2020 Lily Allen

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

3 December 2020 Paul Davies

Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.

3 December 2020 Andrew Motion

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there’s been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

3 December 2020 Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

3 December 2020 John Mayer

I’m a good music provider, and I’m fine with that. I’m a quality music manufacturer.

3 December 2020 Rachel Bilson

I’m the fourth generation to be in show business. It’s pretty neat it’s nice to have that family history.

3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr.

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

3 December 2020 Elinor Wylie

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.

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