QUOTES BY FAMOUS PERSONS
Quotes of Princess Diana
( The princess of UK and people's hearts )
Aid and Assistance I've always though that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way. Communication It's vital the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do. Destiny I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them. Fights and Fighting I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties. Heart I wear my heart on my sleeve. Kindness The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
Love I adore him… I have never been so happy. I have real love. Marriage I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself, you’d want to try even harder to make it work. Parents and Parenting I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support. Reputation I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them. Rules I don't go by the rule book… I lead from the heart, not the head. Service Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back. Spirit and Spirituality I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world look after me. Understanding I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.
Quotes of Charlie Chaplin
( Famous Actor and director )
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. - My Autobiography 1964. Action is more generally understood than words. - New York Times 1931. I have studied human nature, because without a knowledge of it I could not do my work. - American Magazine 1918. My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing. - My Autobiography 1964. Timing! My mother gave me that. I was born with it. I don't think you can teach a person to act. - Quoted in Radio Times 1979 I may show actors too much by mimicry but I'm a damn fine director. - Show 1972. I don't mind coincidence - life is coincidence - but I hate convenience. - On plot 1923. My clowning's realistic, that's why it never goes out of date. - The Observer 1957 Sometimes when I see my old films, I think 'My God! I didn't do that, did I? - Introduction to My Life in Pictures 1974 I hate the theatre. I also hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins. - Calvero, Limelight 1952 Politics and Religion Wars, conflict, it's all business. One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify. - Monsieur Verdoux 1947. I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. - The Observer 1960 I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything. - My Autobiography 1964. I've travelled all over the world, and my patriotism doesn't rest with one class. It rests with the whole world... - Press conference 1947 ...If you step off the curb with your left foot, they accuse you of being a Communist. - Press conference 1947 I am not a Communist. I am a peacemonger. - Telegram to the House of Un-American Activities 1947 As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters... Can't stand caged animals... People must be free. - The Observer 1957 Life in General Life is a tragedy when seen in close up, but a comedy in long shot. - Quote from his obituary in The Guardian 1977. Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination... and a little dough. - Calvero, Limelight 1952 I am for people. I can't help it. - The Observer 1952. I cannot memorise names. I forget even my own brother's. To me the actual name of a person symbolizes nothing. - A Comedian Sees the World 1933 Meeting people formally is like viewing a house without going inside. - A Comedian Sees the World 1933 Se bella pew satoré, je notre so katoré, je notre quie kavoré, je la ku la qui la kwa! - The Tramp, Modern Times 1936 I've never been intrigued by Switzerland. Personally I dislike all mountainous country. I feel hemmed in and isolated from the rest of the world. - A Comedian Sees the World 1933 ...I sometimes sit out on our terrace at sunset and look over a vast green lawn to the lake in the distance, and beyond the lake to the reassuring mountains, and in this mood think of nothing but enjoy their magnificent serenity. - Last paragraph of My Autobiography, Switzerland 1964
Quotes of Marilyn Monroe
( Famous actress )
. "I want to grow old without face-lifts...I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know yourself." "With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself -for survival and living day to day with what comes up." "I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful." "Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both." "No-one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't." "My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!" "Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it." "If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do -look intelligent?" "Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work." "I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other." Press comment on posing nude for calendar in 1949... "My sin has been no more than I have written posing for the nude picture because I need fifty dollars desperately to get my car out of hock." "There was my name up in lights. I said 'God, somebody's made a mistake. But there is was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, your're not a star'. Yet there it was up in lights." "An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?" "That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of." "The only people I care about are the people in Times Square, across the street from the theatre, who can't get close as I come in. If I had light make-up on, they'd never see me. This make-up is for them..." "Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many." "It stirs up envy, fame does. People...feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you -and it won't hurt your feelings -like it's happening to your clothing." "Hollywood is a place where they will pay you a thousand dollar for a kiss & fifty cents for a soul." "I want to be a big star more than anyhting.It's something precious" "I feel stronger if the people around me on the set love me, care for me, and hold good thoughts for me, It creates an aura of love, and I belive I can give a better performance.." "I knew I belonged to the public and to the world,not because i was talented or even beautiful,but because I had never belonged to anyhting or anyoneelse.
Quotes of Michael Jackson
( Famous singer and dancer )
"Whenever I sing, that's what I really mean. I don't sing it if I don't mean it." "If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change." "What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one feeling or experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well. This is art in its highest form. Those moments of enlightenment are what I continue to live for." "Don't judge anyone unless you've talked to them one-on-one; I don't care what the story is..." "Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing: to love and be loved. Love transcends international boundaries and heals the wounds of hatred, racial prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation." "And it's just the way he thought it would be, 'cause the day has come for him to be free. And he laughs, he kicks and rolls up his sleeves. I'm alive, and I'm here forever. This is the man."
Quotes of Mahatma Gandhi
( Freedom fighter )
I claim no perfection for myself. But I do claim to be a passionate seeker after Truth, which is but another name for God. Poverty is the worst form of violence. I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. I refuse to live in other people's houses as an interloper, a beggar or a slave. Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is notworth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be. If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty. An ounce of practice is worth more then tons of preaching. When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth will be the test of merit. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good. A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle. Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. In mass civil resistance leadership is essential; in individual civil resistance every resister is his own leader. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babies, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes. Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lie not in hatred but in justice, if not in love. It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance,cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side. Ahimsa means not to injure any creature by thought, word or deed, not even to the supposed advantage of this creature. Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any. I believe in confessing one's mistakes and correcting them. Such confession strengthens one and purifies the soul. Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has an equal right of freedom and liberty with him. Experience teaches that animal food is unsuited to those who would curb their passions. But it is wrong to over-estimate the importance of food in the formation of character or in subjugating the flesh. It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another. I hold that the true education of the intellect can only come through a proper exercise and training of the body. But unless the development of the mind and body goes hand in hand with a corresponding awakening of the soul, the former alone would prove to be a poor lopsided affair. There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being. A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy. It is an arrogant assumption to say that human beings are lords and masters of the lower creatures. On the contrary, being endowed with greater things in life, they are the trustees of the lower kingdom. The truest test of civilization, culture, and dignity is character, not clothing. The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities. Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be cruel joke. Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent. Non-cooperation and civil disobedience are different but [are] branches of the same tree call Satyagraha (truth-force). Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done. The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right. I would far rather that Hinduism died than untouchability lived. To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable, or invisible, is to deny God. Suffering has its well-defined limits. Suffering can be both wise and unwise, and when the limit is reached, to prolong it would be not unwise but the height of folly. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, always.
Quotes of Elvis Presely
( Famous Rock 'n' Roll Star )
“Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.” -Elvis in 1956, talking about his way of moving on stage. "I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God...I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world." -Elvis commenting to a reporter, 1950's. “Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.” -Elvis often used this adaptation of a well-known quotation. “When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: ‘Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song.' So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.”
-From his acceptance speech for the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award. Given at a ceremony on January 16, 1971. (Elvis quotes from copyrighted material with lines from the song “Without a Song”.) “We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we’ll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.” -Talking about the informal jam sessions he and the band and entourage enjoy each night during the lengthy Vegas engagements. These happen upstairs in Elvis’ suite at the Las Vegas Hilton as they all try to “wind down” from the excitement and energy of the live shows. Quote is from a 1972 taped interview used in MGM’s documentary “Elvis on Tour”. “I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.” -From a 1972 taped interview used in MGM’s documentary “Elvis on Tour”. “The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said “Whatever it is, go back and do it again’.” -From a 1972 taped interview used in MGM’s documentary “Elvis on Tour”. “Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn’t do anything but just jiggle.” -From the press conference prior to his record-breaking Madison Square Garden shows in New York City, 1972. “...the image is one thing and the human being is another...it’s very hard to live up to an image.” -From the press conference prior to his record-breaking Madison Square Garden shows in New York City, 1972. “A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business - live concerts.” -Elvis at a press conference prior to his 1973 television special, “Elvis - Aloha from Hawaii, via Satellite”. “ ‘Til we meet you again, may God bless you. Adios.” -Said in 1977 at the end of a concert during his last tour
QUOTES BY FAMOUS PERSONS 
Quotes of Charlie
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