3 December 2020 George Shearing I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.
3 December 2020 James Madison The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
3 December 2020 Garrison Keillor They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days.
3 December 2020 David Attenborough Dealing with global warming doesn’t mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
3 December 2020 Selma Blair Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It’s a pretty easy audience, and that’s been around for ages.
3 December 2020 Angela Davis Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
3 December 2020 Lauren Myracle What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I’m writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.
3 December 2020 Andrew Sullivan When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
3 December 2020 Michael Chertoff We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
3 December 2020 Jim Davis Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
3 December 2020 LeBron James But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.
3 December 2020 Sacha Guitry The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
3 December 2020 John Hurt I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
3 December 2020 Mandy Patinkin Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
3 December 2020 Charlie Dent We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.
3 December 2020 John Leguizamo Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don’t for a long time.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.
