World Famous Quotes - Page 2

• I guess what I'm looking for here is empathy. So you [Nicholas Kristof] have traveled all around the world, famously to the worse places of the world. Darfur. Mogadishu, Ouagadougou. Probably those places much more than Modesto or Lewiston.I never read a column by you that suggest the people in those places, who support dictators oftentimes, are racists or bad people. You would never write that about a poor person in the third world but you are implying that about your fellow Americans.

  Tucker Carlson

  Writing, People, Support

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

  Herb Caen

  World, May

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• He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

  Michael Feinstein

  Names, Numbers, People

  "Music fans celebrate Gershwin's many contributions". www.cnn.com. September 25, 1998.

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• We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.

  Scott Westerfeld

  World, Kind, Needed

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• Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.

  Donita K. Paul

  Book, Library, Bed

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• But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Halfway There, Needs, World

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• If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Justice, Criminals, World

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having become world-famous in any dimension of creativity? Have you heard of any obedient child who has attained the Nobel prize for anything - literature, peace, science? The obedient child becomes just the common crowd. All that is added to existence is added by the disobedient.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Creativity, Hands

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• It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has created an exquisite script. His attention to detail is impeccable.

  David Suchet

  Murder Mysteries, Boards, Attention

  "Production starts on 'Orient Express'" by Mayer Nissim, www.digitalspy.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

  Bill Lee

  Change, Baseball, Beer

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• What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

  Barry Humphries

  Luck, World, Well Known

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• I am absolutely delighted at the prospect of joining a world famous club like Inter.

  Robbie Keane

  Joining, World, Clubs

  "Famously bohemian; and Robbie Keane" by Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2011.

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• I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.

  Christian Bale

  World, Dentistry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was this Swedish kid who came over here to study engineering, but I got into movies, and suddenly I'm in this 'Rocky' picture with Sylvester Stallone. And then the movie comes out, and it's a big hit, and I'm famous. Like, world famous. I wasn't thinking of ruling Hollywood; I was thinking of just trying to make it to the next day, trying to figure out what the hell happened.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Kids, Thinking, Engineering

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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