3 December 2020 Jeanne Calment Death doesn’t frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
3 December 2020 Nicolaus Copernicus For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
3 December 2020 Amy Poehler I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.
3 December 2020 Erich Fromm If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
3 December 2020 Mary Lynn Rajskub I told my agents that I didn’t want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, ‘It’s the coolest show. You have to go.’
3 December 2020 Esther Williams Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
3 December 2020 Stefano Gabbana Dreams can still come true you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
3 December 2020 Clifford Geertz The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
3 December 2020 Ziyi Zhang Working in Hollywood, it’s clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!
3 December 2020 Marissa Mayer I think what’s really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we’re starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren’t semantically intelligent.
3 December 2020 Alan Greenspan I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don’t want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
3 December 2020 James Truslow Adams Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
3 December 2020 Mariel Hemingway For me, first, it’s finding quiet in my life – and I do that through yoga and meditation. It’s also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.
3 December 2020 Bede Griffiths Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
3 December 2020 Douglas Wilson In two days, it’s hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.
3 December 2020 Hermann Ebbinghaus The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
3 December 2020 Edgar Allan Poe The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
3 December 2020 Anais Nin Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
3 December 2020 Sam Shepard It’s funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It’s not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.
3 December 2020 Kim Kardashian If you’re a basketball player and you don’t stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
3 December 2020 Bob Packwood Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.
3 December 2020 Elton John I’ve had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!
3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
3 December 2020 Bill Sienkiewicz That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.
3 December 2020 Aaliyah It’s really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
3 December 2020 Bar Refaeli My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I’m not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty – I read a lot, I try to learn.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Irvine You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don’t have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn’t matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won’t have that one lucky moment.
