3 December 2020 Russ Carnahan After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson’s bold vision for westward expansion for America.
3 December 2020 Mikheil Saakashvili I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke – he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
3 December 2020 Armistead Maupin I haven’t lost faith in human nature and I haven’t decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
3 December 2020 Puff Daddy At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.
3 December 2020 Christine Baranski I’m a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn’t otherwise.
3 December 2020 Groucho Marx One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.
3 December 2020 Garrett Hedlund You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that’s not how it is for me. When I’m over 200 pounds, that’s when I’m the most confident version of myself.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
3 December 2020 Leon Battista Alberti When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
3 December 2020 James Baldwin The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
3 December 2020 Larisa Oleynik I don’t know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom – she’s the coolest. She’s worked really hard her whole life and I just think she’s got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it’s so silly.
3 December 2020 Bo Bennett Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
3 December 2020 George Washington Carver Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
3 December 2020 Humphry Davy The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
3 December 2020 Mercedes McCambridge Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
3 December 2020 Orlando Bloom A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn’t make it any less weird though.
3 December 2020 Jacques Pepin When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
3 December 2020 Harrison Birtwistle When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I’d been writing since I was 11.
3 December 2020 Randy Harrison I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
