3 December 2020 Brittany Snow I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the ’50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I’ve always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I’d just copy them. Not very pretty.
3 December 2020 Thor Heyerdahl Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.
3 December 2020 Sue Monk Kidd I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.
3 December 2020 Doris Lessing Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative – despite what current ideology says.
3 December 2020 Paul Robeson In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Cady Stanton The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
3 December 2020 Smokey Robinson Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I’ve ever done is a gift from God.
3 December 2020 Justin Cronin The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That’s my immortality. And I shouldn’t try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.
3 December 2020 Mario Batali The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
3 December 2020 David Mamet It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
3 December 2020 Martha Graham There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
3 December 2020 Helena Bonham Carter I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.
3 December 2020 John Carpenter When I was a kid, I loved ‘The Curse of Frankenstein,’ ‘The Creeping Unknown,’ ‘X: The Unknown.’ I love ‘Forbidden Planet,’ ‘The Thing from Another World.’ They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
3 December 2020 Laura Bush Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
3 December 2020 Dan Savage I don’t think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
3 December 2020 Donald Rumsfeld Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin’s still learning.
3 December 2020 Alain de Botton I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
3 December 2020 Laura Ingalls Wilder Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
3 December 2020 Margaret Cavendish A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
3 December 2020 Kristen Stewart Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I’ve succeeded, if I’m doing something that makes me happy and I’m not lying to anybody.
3 December 2020 Tony Blair I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It’s your choice.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
3 December 2020 Monica Potter Well, I am not really a conventional mom at all. Like, I had my kids really young. I had Danny when I was 18 or 19 and then Liam when I was 23 and Molly, I had when I was a little older.
