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Which famous people said the following quotes about the New Year or new beginnings?
- German-born scientist: "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
- Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948: "For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice."
- American inventor of the lightning rod: "Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New Year find you a better man."
- English essayist and poet: "New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
- Creator of some of the best-known fictional characters: "A new heart for a New Year, always!"
- Dubbed the "Queen of All Media": "Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right."
- Singer of The Berlin Trilogy studio albums: "I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring."
- Controversial American comedian: "Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn't get better. You get better."
- Former lead singer of Destiny's Child: "In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours."
- On the 50th anniversary of his death in 2013, was honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner: You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- German-Dutch diarist: "What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet."
- "The Charge of the Light Brigade" poet: "Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, "It will be happier."
- 16th president of the United States: "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
- English dramatist during the reign of James I: "To the old, long life and treasure; to the young, all health and pleasure."
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens: “New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”
- American singer who spent her early years on a Christmas tree farm: "This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change."
- "Cuz they say... 2000 zero zero party over oops out of time, so tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999."
- Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. lyrics: "And I do believe, on New Year's Eve, we can make it. We can live forever."
- Creator of the fictional Father Brown: "The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul."
- Host of NBC's The Tonight Show from 1992 to 2009: "New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive."
Answers:
- Albert Einstein
- T.S. Eliot
- Benjamin Franklin
- Charles Lamb
- Charles Dickens
- Oprah Winfrey
- David Bowie
- Joan Rivers
- Beyonce
- C.S. Lewis
- Ann Frank
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Abraham Lincoln
- Ben Johnson
- Mark Twain
- Taylor Swift
- Prince
- Snoop Dogg
- G.K. Chesterton
- Jay Leno