3 December 2020 Robert Teeter I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan’s record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.
3 December 2020 Lech Walesa The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
3 December 2020 Deepak Chopra But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
3 December 2020 Todd Rokita I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn’t strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.
3 December 2020 David Sedaris When I look at a lot of older stuff that I’ve written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.
3 December 2020 David Attenborough People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can’t sustain them.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
3 December 2020 Karl Lehmann The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
3 December 2020 Angie Dickinson In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!
3 December 2020 Carly Fiorina I think somehow men understand other men’s need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I’m disappointed to have to say that, but I think it’s undeniably true.
3 December 2020 John Locke I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
3 December 2020 Francois Rabelais I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
3 December 2020 Samuel Goldwyn Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
3 December 2020 David Ogden Stiers We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
3 December 2020 Ernst Fischer In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
3 December 2020 Xenophon Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
3 December 2020 Norman Lear Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything.
3 December 2020 Ice T Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
3 December 2020 Norman MacCaig When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can’t teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
3 December 2020 Solomon Ortiz To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn’t have eyeballs or fins.
3 December 2020 Jessica Lange Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
3 December 2020 Kevin Rudd Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.
3 December 2020 Gordon Ramsay Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.
3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
3 December 2020 Drew Curtis ESPN has this problem with sports, it’s impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.
3 December 2020 Susan Smith I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.
