3 December 2020 Al Yankovic As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
3 December 2020 Joel Osteen I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
3 December 2020 Paul Hawken Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
3 December 2020 Gus Van Sant Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me… as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it’s one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you’re gay.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
3 December 2020 E. M. Forster One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
3 December 2020 Robert Plant You can’t give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know you’ve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
3 December 2020 Queen Elizabeth II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
3 December 2020 Rachel Bilson A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
3 December 2020 Ray Kurzweil By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
3 December 2020 Kit Bond While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
3 December 2020 Charles Wesley Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
3 December 2020 Robert Frost The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it’s egotism.
3 December 2020 Donna Karan I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about space and form and it’s something you can share with other people.
3 December 2020 Michael K. Williams God has blessed me. I’ve been given a lot. I’m at peace with myself. It’s time to give back.
3 December 2020 Denzel Washington I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.
3 December 2020 Kristin Kreuk I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Koch As for political poetry, as it’s usually defined, it seems there’s very little good political poetry.
3 December 2020 Will Oldham I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That’s fine, but they don’t know me.
3 December 2020 Amitabh Bachchan I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don’t know now either.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient’s condition. Usually this is a member of the family.