3 December 2020 Scott Adams Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
3 December 2020 Fred Brooks Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
3 December 2020 Bob Geldof Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it’s very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.
3 December 2020 Jim Gerlach Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.
3 December 2020 Bernard Cornwell What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
3 December 2020 Bono I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.
3 December 2020 Allen Klein Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
3 December 2020 Michael Fassbender I’m always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don’t get too comfortable.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
3 December 2020 Gerald R. Ford There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
3 December 2020 Joe Baca Catholic schools in our Nation’s education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
3 December 2020 Phyllis Diller It’s a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I’d be rotten to the core.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor It is a measure of the framers’ fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
3 December 2020 William Drummond Put a bridle on thy tongue set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace… on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
3 December 2020 John Hodgman When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it’s going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.
3 December 2020 Kiri Te Kanawa I really believe I’ve been a good person. Not perfect – forget about perfect – but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants – and a few other things as well – but I’ve never hurt anybody.
3 December 2020 Catherine the Great I shall be an autocrat, that’s my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that’s his.
3 December 2020 Jackie Chan Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
3 December 2020 Kate Bosworth To put as little pressure on the relationship you’re in is very important.
3 December 2020 James Keller It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.
