3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
3 December 2020 Mike Leigh My work requires acting at its most committed – it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn’t work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
3 December 2020 Neil Simon Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn’t count.
3 December 2020 Lucy Stone Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
3 December 2020 Roy Romer Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it’s not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.
3 December 2020 Eliza Dushku My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She’s a professor in Boston, and she’s been teaching women’s studies for 30 years and international politics.
3 December 2020 Yahoo Serious Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we’d finally cobbled together our low budget film.
3 December 2020 Tom Cochrane Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.
3 December 2020 Alain de Botton What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
3 December 2020 Paul Walker I think my mom put it best. She said, ‘Little girls soften their daddy’s hearts.’
3 December 2020 Jamie Redknapp I’m enjoying myself this year and for once I’m not chasing my fitness.
3 December 2020 Gray Davis We’ll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we’ll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don’t have today.
3 December 2020 Eva Longoria You can’t have a relationship when you’re shooting a 14-hour day and your husband is shooting a 14-hour day in the same city. It’s a time thing and it’s a together thing.
3 December 2020 Walter Cronkite America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
3 December 2020 Mortimer Adler Aristotle uses a mother’s love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
3 December 2020 George A. Romero The guy that made me wanna make movies… and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
3 December 2020 Lynda Barry I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women’s restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
3 December 2020 David Sarnoff I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.
3 December 2020 Heraclitus The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.
3 December 2020 Billie Jean King In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.