3 December 2020 James Bovard It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.
3 December 2020 Thomas Reid The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
3 December 2020 Ginni Rometty IBM’s long-standing mantra is ‘Think.’ What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
3 December 2020 Dalai Lama Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
3 December 2020 Rita Dove There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
3 December 2020 Cathy Rindner Tempelsman The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn’t really a liar after all. He simply can’t control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
3 December 2020 John Wanamaker People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
3 December 2020 Robert Atkins You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.
3 December 2020 Layne Staley It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don’t see that same intimacy happening very much today.
3 December 2020 Adam Brody I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you’re a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that’s pretty cool.
3 December 2020 James Lee Burke We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we’ve been in wars ever since. We’re not a pacific people.
3 December 2020 Mary J. Blige I’ve just been growing right along. It’s painful, but it’s a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It’s like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you’re looking so hot.
3 December 2020 Walter Bagehot So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable.
3 December 2020 Eugenio Montale This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.
3 December 2020 Zoe Kazan My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did ‘Meek’s Cutoff.’ She’s an extraordinary actor and mom.
3 December 2020 Lil' Romeo We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn’t know what to think cuz we were just joking around.
3 December 2020 Henry Drummond To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn’t have to be a creature.
3 December 2020 Mark Wahlberg Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
3 December 2020 Jaime King I think that’s what’s great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.
3 December 2020 Luis Gutierrez According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.
3 December 2020 David Lynch Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
3 December 2020 Luke Scott We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don’t have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
