3 December 2020 Jonathan Raban The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama’s ‘Dreams From My Father’ is Jimmy Carter’s short campaign autobiography, ‘Why Not the Best?,’ published in 1975.
3 December 2020 John Prescott The only break I ever took was to eat. That’s all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.
3 December 2020 Lisa See It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have – I guess you’d call them beauty contests – where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
3 December 2020 Marc Jacobs But I’m blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.
3 December 2020 Andrew Lloyd Webber I guess we’ve had a very close relationship because I don’t pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.
3 December 2020 Terry Eagleton Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.
3 December 2020 Jane Harman The Committee’s review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
3 December 2020 Thomas Frank The only truly individualistic health-care choice – where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds – is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.
3 December 2020 Lee H. Hamilton You’ll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time – it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.
3 December 2020 Malcolm Forbes The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
3 December 2020 William James The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
3 December 2020 Chris Burke Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.
3 December 2020 Leon Jouhaux True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
3 December 2020 Billy Joel When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
3 December 2020 Anais Nin It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
3 December 2020 Rita Dove I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
3 December 2020 Lucy Powell There’s a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
3 December 2020 Eric Stoltz My first film as an actor was ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High,’ a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.
3 December 2020 Lucille Roybal-Allard Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
3 December 2020 Garry Trudeau When you’re young, with less on the line, it’s easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation – politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. – to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
3 December 2020 Taylor Momsen Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that’s what I think life is about.
3 December 2020 Kevin Richardson I wasn’t originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.
3 December 2020 Charlie Sheen We’re going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I’m going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it’s worth a fortune. I’ll make this a work of magic warlock art.
