3 December 2020 Amy Waldman Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
3 December 2020 Brittany Murphy I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I’d rather live my private life than read about it.
3 December 2020 Michael Moore Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
3 December 2020 Ethan Embry I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would’ve been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
3 December 2020 John Stossel The one thing I’ve learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
3 December 2020 Sarah Orne Jewett It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one’s uses.
3 December 2020 Herbert Read What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
3 December 2020 Dean Cain I don’t really go down one path. I wouldn’t call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn’t put myself into any organized faith.
3 December 2020 John le Carre By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
3 December 2020 Colin Quinn People’s – most people’s job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It’s not even paper.
3 December 2020 Manolo Blahnik I hate these platforms that are all over the place today they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
3 December 2020 Gwyneth Paltrow My dad always said he couldn’t remember a time when I did not want to act.
3 December 2020 Vannevar Bush Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
3 December 2020 An Wang My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
3 December 2020 Donna Leon I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
3 December 2020 Roy Moore It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.
3 December 2020 Rodney Dangerfield I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
3 December 2020 Emerson Fittipaldi You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.
3 December 2020 Henry Van Dyke Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
3 December 2020 Charles Schumer A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
3 December 2020 Ken Calvert We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.
