3 December 2020 Jonathan Safran Foer I’m not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I’ll be funny in real life. It’s the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
3 December 2020 David Schwimmer I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
3 December 2020 Paracelsus Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
3 December 2020 Rick Perry Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even ‘The New York Times’ let it slip into its pages that, ‘Texas is the future.’
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
3 December 2020 Mario Batali Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it’s just as fast.
3 December 2020 Steve Jobs We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
3 December 2020 Susan Faludi What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
3 December 2020 Jesse Jackson Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
3 December 2020 Adolf Loos The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business – the gambler always loses over the long term.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
3 December 2020 Mariska Hargitay I am grateful that I didn’t let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.
3 December 2020 Callan McAuliffe I find that you learn from others. It’s very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
3 December 2020 Jane Fonda While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
