3 December 2020 Roger Nash Baldwin So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.
3 December 2020 Gavin DeGraw So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That’s human nature.
3 December 2020 Albert Pike Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
3 December 2020 Karl Shapiro Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
3 December 2020 Archie Shepp Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
3 December 2020 Adam Schiff America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
3 December 2020 James Martineau Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
3 December 2020 John Woo My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
3 December 2020 Dirk Kempthorne Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers – we need our faith-based and community partners.
3 December 2020 Emma Watson I don’t have perfect teeth, I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.
3 December 2020 Arlen Specter Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush’s austere budget for the next fiscal year.
3 December 2020 Andre Malraux Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.
3 December 2020 Nana Mouskouri I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
3 December 2020 David Hyde Pierce Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.
3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.
3 December 2020 Luciano Pavarotti In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.
3 December 2020 Don Van Vliet I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
3 December 2020 Charles Kettering My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
3 December 2020 Keanu Reeves It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.
3 December 2020 Louis C. K. A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.
3 December 2020 Maggie Gallagher Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
3 December 2020 Gordon Ramsay I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.
