3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
3 December 2020 Greg Louganis Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I’d always felt there was something to live up to – expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
3 December 2020 Herbert Read The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
3 December 2020 Thomas S. Monson Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
3 December 2020 Kenneth G. Wilson My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.
3 December 2020 Olof Palme The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
3 December 2020 Laura Ingalls Wilder Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
3 December 2020 Carly Fiorina Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, ‘No way.’
3 December 2020 Charles Babbage That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
3 December 2020 Miranda Kerr I have a weird sense of humour. My dad’s the same. We love watching ‘Monty Python’ together.
3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
3 December 2020 Kevin James I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn’t, no problem.
3 December 2020 Mark Zandi The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it’s no longer a question of should we address entitlements – it’s no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.
3 December 2020 Ashley Tisdale I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
3 December 2020 Seann William Scott There are a lot of movies I’ve done that come and go, and don’t really establish a growing fan base.
3 December 2020 Sarah Wayne Callies The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.
3 December 2020 Michael Beschloss To people who remember JFK’s assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father’s coffin.
3 December 2020 Tyra Banks I’m trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.
3 December 2020 W. Clement Stone No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
3 December 2020 Paramahansa Yogananda The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
3 December 2020 Steve Martin There’s a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There’s a lot of sex, you know, in art. There’s a lot of naked women and men, and there’s intrigue, there’s fakery. It’s a real microcosm of the larger world.
3 December 2020 Richard Stallman Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. ‘Don’t bother us with politics’, respond those who don’t want to learn.
3 December 2020 Brad Henry What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
3 December 2020 Seth Rogen Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.
3 December 2020 Wesley Morris In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It’s a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.