3 December 2020 James Woods My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn’t walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
3 December 2020 Dominique de Villepin I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.
3 December 2020 Darrell Royal For me, it is just the total experience – from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
3 December 2020 Vance Havner Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, ‘Shake well before using.’ That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
3 December 2020 Vanessa Carlton But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.
3 December 2020 Charles M. Schulz Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
3 December 2020 Eminem I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
3 December 2020 John Badham I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.
3 December 2020 Cat Stevens I’ve studied various schools of thought… I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I’ve found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times.
3 December 2020 Birdy When I performed at ‘Open Mic U.K.’ I had this connection with the audience that I’d never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd… was just amazing.
3 December 2020 Jeff Dunham When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going there was no reason to quit.
3 December 2020 Michael Bloomberg I’m trying to change the culture in New York City that’s hard enough!
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.
3 December 2020 James Schuyler However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can’t be much to it.
3 December 2020 Amanda Hocking I was always depressed growing up. There wasn’t a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot and that was how I dealt with it.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
3 December 2020 Oliver Goldsmith Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
3 December 2020 David Wilmot The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.
3 December 2020 Potter Stewart To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
3 December 2020 John Searle My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
3 December 2020 Eddie Van Halen If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you’ll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you’ll get to where you want to be.
3 December 2020 Micky Dolenz My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.
3 December 2020 Ricky Schroder I feel cheesy when I see ‘Silver Spoons.’ Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
