World Famous Quotes

• In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

  Andy Warhol

  Future, World, Fifteen

  Quoted in AndyWarhol (exhibition catalogue, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden) (1968). Usually quoted simply with "famous" rather than "world famous."

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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  Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

  Harriet Tubman

  Inspiring, Dream, Passion

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• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.

  John Lennox

  World, Nonsense, Scientist

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• Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?

  Drew Carey

  World, Captains, Obvious

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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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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