3 December 2020 Francis Bacon He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
3 December 2020 Robert MacNeil After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.
3 December 2020 Wendy Liebman I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw ‘How to be a Stand-up Comedian,’ it resonated. I realized I’d rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.
3 December 2020 Jason Aldean Macon has such a rich musical history – and the state of Georgia, as well.
3 December 2020 Dave Brubeck Many people don’t understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz… And that is really the idea of democracy – freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don’t just get out there and do anything you want.
3 December 2020 Michael Baden I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
3 December 2020 Sun Tzu The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
3 December 2020 Renee Fleming My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.
3 December 2020 Walter Bagehot The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
3 December 2020 Dennis Rodman Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
3 December 2020 Wallace Stegner A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it’s the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.
3 December 2020 Manuel Puig We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn’t use irony to reduce their power.
3 December 2020 Samuel P. Huntington Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
3 December 2020 Judith Viorst One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
3 December 2020 Elisabeth Shue I understand now that the vulnerability I’ve always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can’t experience life without feeling life. What I’ve learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it’s a strength.
3 December 2020 Reba McEntire For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.
3 December 2020 Chris Pratt I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish – named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.
3 December 2020 Genevieve Gorder So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that’s a great reward.
3 December 2020 Donald Sutherland To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
