3 December 2020 Cynthia Nixon While I don’t often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have ‘chosen’ is to be in a gay relationship.
3 December 2020 Vanessa Paradis There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
3 December 2020 Neale Donald Walsch God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.
3 December 2020 Octavia Butler No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
3 December 2020 Lech Walesa You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don’t you use them in the search for love?
3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
3 December 2020 Paul Sweeney How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
3 December 2020 Henry Ford Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
3 December 2020 Rick Perry What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
3 December 2020 John Bruton Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.
3 December 2020 Kristin Hersh I’ve always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
3 December 2020 Mary J. Blige I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette When I’m off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It’s a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything – going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
3 December 2020 Guru Nanak Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
3 December 2020 Channing Tatum I’m not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I’ve just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.
3 December 2020 Iveta Radicova In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.
3 December 2020 Andy Goldsworthy Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There’s something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
3 December 2020 Jodi Picoult I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it’s writing time, I write.
3 December 2020 Abel Ferrara The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
3 December 2020 Robert Dale Owen Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Rifkin Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.
