Famously Quotes
51 Famously quotes by 49 unique authors
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Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice to Skid Row…
— John Carlos Frey
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Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use…
— Joshua Foer
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We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to…
— Denise Mina
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Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.
— Alan Moore
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The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research -…
— James Surowiecki
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Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
— Daniel Tammet
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Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most…
— Christopher Walken
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Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by…
— Naomi Wolf
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Ripred sighed. 'I suppose so. You and I seem to end up doing everything. Shall we say four members for each delegation?' 'Why not?' Luxa…
— Suzanne Collins
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As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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So if the punks come here, they’re going to dance with the devil and get the short end of the horn. (Zarek) No one better…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how…
— Pico Iyer
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Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple…
— Terry Pratchett
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A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this…
— Terry Pratchett
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The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book."…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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(Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his…
— Susan Cain
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Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is…
— Patrick Collison
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To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.
— Danielle de Niese
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously…
— Suzy Menkes
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England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke,…
— Alexander Cockburn
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In high school I had some famously egregious fashion missteps. I was really out there in fashion, I think because I wanted attention. I would…
— Busy Philipps
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The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a napkin…
— Steven Rattner
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Gilbert Gottfried is famously cheap. Im impressed youre here Gilbert. You gotta buy new clothes and take a week off work just to do this.…
— Jeff Ross
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