3 December 2020 Moon Unit Zappa If there’s anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it’s being washed up right after.
3 December 2020 Malcolm X I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
3 December 2020 Dorothy Day Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
3 December 2020 George Eliot The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
3 December 2020 Thomas Frank While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what’s on the line is American liberty itself.
3 December 2020 Alveda King African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama’s left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
3 December 2020 Levon Helm My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I’m home.
3 December 2020 James Baldwin An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
3 December 2020 George Santayana History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
3 December 2020 Henry James The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
3 December 2020 Jim Rohn If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
3 December 2020 Taylor Dayne My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
3 December 2020 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
3 December 2020 Octavia Spencer I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
3 December 2020 Rita Rudner I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
3 December 2020 Chad Hugo I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can’t really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.
3 December 2020 Ezra Koenig My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad’s union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.
3 December 2020 James Dyson In the digital age of ‘overnight’ success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
