3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
3 December 2020 Naima Adedapo I wouldn’t compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don’t feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people’s story. I don’t like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
3 December 2020 Thomas Mann It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
3 December 2020 John Jay Chapman Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same – hardihood. Give them raw truth.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
3 December 2020 Roger Stone How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We’re supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.
3 December 2020 Loni Anderson My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
3 December 2020 Coretta Scott King If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I’d be sure to have some dough to support my family.
3 December 2020 Dave Brubeck I’m always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.
3 December 2020 Jesus Christ So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
3 December 2020 Mark Wahlberg James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
3 December 2020 Claude Chabrol As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn’t, so making films would change nothing.
3 December 2020 Clarence Thomas I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people’s lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.
3 December 2020 Enya I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
3 December 2020 Ho Chi Minh You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
3 December 2020 Marcelene Cox Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
3 December 2020 Garrett Hedlund Life’s too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.
3 December 2020 John Barton Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.
3 December 2020 Leona Lewis I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I’ve been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.
