3 December 2020 Jonathan Kozol I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It’s blasphemy.
3 December 2020 Bill Mauldin Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn’t like that attitude.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf I’ve been in fights, but that doesn’t make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I’m not proud of it.
3 December 2020 Charles Stanley God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.
3 December 2020 Joe Wright I couldn’t be a cameraman or a designer or an actor – I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.
3 December 2020 Carson Daly I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.
3 December 2020 Gamaliel Bailey Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
3 December 2020 Felix Frankfurter Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
3 December 2020 Bob Woodward Nixon’s grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
3 December 2020 David Byrne Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.
3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
3 December 2020 Eric Cantona If you have only one passion in life – football – and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
3 December 2020 Hilary Swank The truth is, after Boys Don’t Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.
3 December 2020 Wendell Phillips What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
3 December 2020 Adam Levine I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form.
3 December 2020 John Locke The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
3 December 2020 Mike Royko The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It’s an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.
3 December 2020 Pete Rose No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where’s the game going, he was pretty good.
3 December 2020 Glen Hansard Our imagination just needs space. It’s all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.
3 December 2020 Tim Vine Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It’s either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it’s Colin.
3 December 2020 Mick Jagger I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It’s true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
