3 December 2020 Samuel Goldwyn I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
3 December 2020 Paula Radcliffe Never set limits, go after your dreams, don’t be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot – it’s good for you!
3 December 2020 Dick Gregory Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
3 December 2020 Ama Ata Aidoo At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.
3 December 2020 James Fallows There’s no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I didn’t really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
3 December 2020 Mason Cooley The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Cage If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn’t have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.
3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
3 December 2020 Robert Anton Wilson Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
3 December 2020 Janis Joplin If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
3 December 2020 Kurt Vonnegut People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.
3 December 2020 Anthony Storr If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
3 December 2020 Henry Rollins I don’t mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I’m good at. I do what I do and that’s it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Sarkozy I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
3 December 2020 Max Baucus Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
3 December 2020 Bobby Darin There are certain times I don’t want my picture taken. If my wife’s stepping out of a car and it looks like it’s going to come out an indecent picture, don’t I have a right to object?
3 December 2020 Miley Cyrus I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he’s still 17.
3 December 2020 Joe Manchin Come to West Virginia and we’ll show you how to live… how to treat people. We’re open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.
3 December 2020 Dave Chappelle Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you’re interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.
3 December 2020 Dan O'Brien It really means a lot that I won the gold medal – but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
3 December 2020 Lisa Marie Presley I don’t do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don’t exercise.
3 December 2020 Alexandra Fuller The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
