3 December 2020 Jackie Chan When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
3 December 2020 Avicenna The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
3 December 2020 Charlie Chaplin I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
3 December 2020 Stephen Jay Gould I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam – I break in order to reveal.
3 December 2020 Delta Goodrem Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, ‘I have been through worse.’
3 December 2020 Natalie Portman You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
3 December 2020 Julie Taymor I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We’re all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.
3 December 2020 Bob Uecker I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it’s never at the expense of the other guy.
3 December 2020 Eric Bana I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it’s just a big play.
3 December 2020 Larry Page If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that’s not going to promote healthiness.
3 December 2020 Derek Jacobi I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
3 December 2020 E. M. Forster Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
3 December 2020 Jerry Only If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future’s ahead and not behind.
3 December 2020 Ann Landers Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
3 December 2020 Uta Hagen We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
3 December 2020 George Burns Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.
3 December 2020 W. H. Auden Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
3 December 2020 Miuccia Prada For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It’s alive.
3 December 2020 Rachael Ray It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
3 December 2020 Alan Alda I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
