3 December 2020 Bo Jackson I would say my greatest achievement in life right now – my greatest achievement period is – and I’m still trying to achieve it – is to be a wonderful father to my kids.
3 December 2020 Anthony Hopkins I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
3 December 2020 Whitney Houston I like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos I don’t mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else’s object.
3 December 2020 Beth Ditto Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
3 December 2020 Julie Andrews I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.
3 December 2020 Dan Brown I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn’t change. I have the same challenges every day.
3 December 2020 Cornelia Otis Skinner To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
3 December 2020 Koo Stark I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
3 December 2020 Rupert Murdoch It’s a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven’t got any other business interests.
3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
3 December 2020 Levon Helm Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
3 December 2020 Mark E. Smith The thing with me. I can’t stick musicians. I’ve thought about this. I can’t stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that’s my strength I can hear what they can’t.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
3 December 2020 Jerry Zucker I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.
3 December 2020 Germaine Greer The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion.
3 December 2020 Ewan McGregor It’s not my job to try and alter the director’s style – he’s in charge, and I’ll always give him my trust.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.