3 December 2020 Robert Hall In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
3 December 2020 Sherrod Brown We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.
3 December 2020 Sun Tzu If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
3 December 2020 Leni Riefenstahl Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
3 December 2020 Edsger Dijkstra It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
3 December 2020 Toby Young America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
3 December 2020 Michael Tilson Thomas They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That’s the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
3 December 2020 Mike Schmidt Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
3 December 2020 Kevin Alejandro I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I’d love to do a romantic comedy, and I’d love to do some period pieces with classical text. I’d love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place.
3 December 2020 Janet Napolitano Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.
3 December 2020 Dick Gregory When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
3 December 2020 Hamid Karzai We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
3 December 2020 Andie MacDowell I tried to tell them about the dating process because I’m single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!
3 December 2020 Demi Lovato Some of my fans have said that because I’ve been able to speak about my issues, that they’re not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.
3 December 2020 Mickey Gilley I’m set to have my best year ever: I’m hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I’m going to use my theater to its fullest potential.
3 December 2020 Dolly Parton You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin’ on, I then got the money, and gone.
3 December 2020 Lucy Hale I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It’s very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn’t hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
3 December 2020 Alexander McCall Smith I’ve also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it’s amazing how it concentrates their minds.
3 December 2020 Gerald R. Ford It’s the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It’s a quality to be proud of. But it’s a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
