3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln I do the very best I know how – the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
3 December 2020 Robbie Coltrane The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it’s really all about them.
3 December 2020 Robert McNamara We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo – men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
3 December 2020 Elton John I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.
3 December 2020 Richard Eberhart Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
3 December 2020 Phylicia Rashad There’s always something to suggest that you’ll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
3 December 2020 E. P. Thompson I don’t care tuppence whether I’m forced into a leadership position or not. I’d much sooner not.
3 December 2020 Maya Lin In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it’s done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
3 December 2020 Carl Levin Dr. Rice’s record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President’s decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
3 December 2020 J. G. Ballard What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
3 December 2020 Tucker Carlson Living in Washington, you can’t take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don’t believe because they get paid to.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
3 December 2020 Rowan Atkinson Confronting a stadium audience, you can’t see the whites of their eyes. It’s just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can’t see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.
3 December 2020 Major Taylor In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Berkley Having gone through so many of the personal things I’ve gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don’t profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.
3 December 2020 Taylor Lautner At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell – I’d drop a few pounds.
3 December 2020 Evan Parker Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction… Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.
3 December 2020 Jenny McCarthy I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, ‘Hey, sorry about the autism, but here’s a step-by-step list on what to do next.’ But doctors don’t do that. They say ‘sorry’ and move you along.
3 December 2020 Drew Barrymore It’s only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.
3 December 2020 Jackie Mason I can’t predict the future and I don’t have respect for people who try to.
3 December 2020 Roma Downey Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation.
3 December 2020 Emile Durkheim Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned.
3 December 2020 Stephen Daldry I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.