3 December 2020 George J. Mitchell I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.
3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn’t speak any Russian. He didn’t care whether I could understand what they were saying he wanted me to make up dialogue.
3 December 2020 Amy Klobuchar I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.
3 December 2020 Jonah Hill I grew up with baseball I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.
3 December 2020 Richard Savage Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
3 December 2020 Maggie Smith I tend to head for what’s amusing because a lot of things aren’t happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
3 December 2020 Oscar Niemeyer It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
3 December 2020 Audre Lorde When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.
3 December 2020 Howard Thurman Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
3 December 2020 King Hussein We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
3 December 2020 A. J. P. Taylor There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment – and nothing more corrupting.
3 December 2020 Roger Zelazny While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
3 December 2020 Constance Baker Motley I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
3 December 2020 Callie Khouri I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don’t think it didn’t happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don’t sell internationally.
3 December 2020 Shawn Johnson It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can’t ask for much more.
3 December 2020 Sara Blakely We don’t have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it’s important to be with our family and friends.
3 December 2020 Lil' Kim But this is Miami, you can’t come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you’re all covered up in this heat, you’re gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It’s sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
3 December 2020 John Key I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
