3 December 2020 Cathy Freeman With Alexander’s cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
3 December 2020 David Duchovny The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be – and when they’re not, we cry.
3 December 2020 Rosalynn Carter A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
3 December 2020 Antoine de Saint-Exupery True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
3 December 2020 James L. Farmer, Jr. Anyone who said he wasn’t afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn’t shake but inside I was shaking.
3 December 2020 Vincent Frank As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.
3 December 2020 Melanie Laurent The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.
3 December 2020 Demetri Martin And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I’m looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I’m on the right track.
3 December 2020 Bill Maher Things aren’t right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
3 December 2020 Calvin Klein When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
3 December 2020 Lorraine Hansberry A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men – and people in general.
3 December 2020 Timothy Geithner This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.
3 December 2020 Patty Hearst You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and – first of all, it was relief. I was not – there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone.
3 December 2020 Hilary Duff My mom always says, ‘If you don’t believe in something, you’ll lose yourself completely.’
3 December 2020 Carrie Brownstein I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
3 December 2020 Matthew Ashford I don’t know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I’m glad he’s coming back. It’s going to be good for the show.
3 December 2020 Kate Millett Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
3 December 2020 John Malkovich A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn’t do if it didn’t have rabies. But that doesn’t change the fact that it has rabies.
3 December 2020 Gustave Meyrink Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.
3 December 2020 Walter Elliot Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after the other.
3 December 2020 Minoru Yamasaki So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
3 December 2020 Ike Turner They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it’s bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.
3 December 2020 Amber Tamblyn I liked the humor of it, I’ve always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.