3 December 2020 Julie Burchill Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
3 December 2020 George Tenet To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
3 December 2020 Joseph de Maistre False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
3 December 2020 Lewis Mumford One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
3 December 2020 Corbin Bernsen There’s nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don’t know what I would do.
3 December 2020 Idina Menzel For me, ‘Rent’ was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they’re going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they’re going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it’s not because I’m a hero.
3 December 2020 Steve Jobs But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
3 December 2020 Melissa Etheridge There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.
3 December 2020 David Mitchell I’ve become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
3 December 2020 Nathan Fillion It’s so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there’s laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It’s viable and mainstream.
3 December 2020 Warren Beatty Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
3 December 2020 Harold Ramis Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He’s got 30 years on stage… there’s no telling him what’s funny.
3 December 2020 Daniel J. Boorstin The traveler was active he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight-seeing.’
3 December 2020 Mao Zedong The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
3 December 2020 Graham Greene Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
3 December 2020 Adam Sandler The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein It’s hard to think of yourself as a brand, especially when I have four daughters who kick my butt early in the morning every day before I go to work.
3 December 2020 Emmet Fox It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
3 December 2020 Freeman Dyson I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
3 December 2020 Rachael Ray I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
3 December 2020 Monica Lewinsky Well, it was actually – I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Garner I’m privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.
3 December 2020 Lily Aldridge I think I’m going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I’m very excited! It’s going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey – he’s the chef of the family!
