3 December 2020 Michel Gondry I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn’t get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
3 December 2020 Susan Orlean Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn’t have to come in contact with it.
3 December 2020 Corazon Aquino I know my limitations, and I don’t like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.
3 December 2020 Jay Rockefeller Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can’t make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.
3 December 2020 Robert Morgan The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
3 December 2020 Kent McCord That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn’t realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.
3 December 2020 Isaac Bashevis Singer The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
3 December 2020 Bob Nelson People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
3 December 2020 Charles Foster Bass China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
3 December 2020 Rainer Maria Rilke A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
3 December 2020 Aristotle It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
3 December 2020 Socrates Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
3 December 2020 Iain Duncan Smith For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money – it is transformative. It’s about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
3 December 2020 Tim Gunn I’ve never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don’t like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.
3 December 2020 Gene Robinson You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures.
3 December 2020 Yoko Ono The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
3 December 2020 Jim Hightower The corporations don’t have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
