Famous Quotes
2163 Famous quotes by 1600 unique authors
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Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.
— Paul Biya
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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
— Michael Cunningham
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Lifestyles of the rich and famous. Well I'm rich and famous but if you got money, they know what you're name is. If you don't,…
— Wiz Khalifa
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My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on…
— Alice Eve
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I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to…
— Tom Hollander
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We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words...
— Roman Abramovich
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There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i…
— Edward Kasner
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It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous…
— Kit Williams
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I know a lot of famous people, done a lot of cool things. Tell you what separates me from the guys I know is knowing…
— Willie Robertson
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You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!
— Nelson Mandela
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I became famous almost before I had a craft.
— Farrah Fawcett
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The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.
— John Wain
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There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a…
— Tim Harford
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I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right…
— Helmut Newton
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When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was…
— Janelle Monae
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They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near…
— Tom Clancy
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I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want…
— Terence Lewis
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You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe.…
— Tana French
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The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.
— Walter Winchell
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You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous.
— Winston Churchill
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If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such Persons…
— Robert Hooke
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Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe…
— Ann Brashares
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I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or…
— Jonas Mekas
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I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.
— T Bone Burnett
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I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when…
— Giacomo Casanova
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