3 December 2020 Jennifer Jason Leigh I’m a typical middle child. I’m the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody’s happy. It’s hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.
3 December 2020 Johnny Depp You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.
3 December 2020 Augustine of Hippo Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
3 December 2020 Emma Watson When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
3 December 2020 Simon Newcomb In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, ‘Can he name a kitten?’
3 December 2020 Louise Mensch I’m not sure I make old bones in parliament. It’s an amazing experience to have had but I can’t see myself being Mother of the House.
3 December 2020 Jesse Helms Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
3 December 2020 Thomas Friedman Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.
3 December 2020 Muriel Spark When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
3 December 2020 Michael Jackson Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
3 December 2020 Patrick Henry Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
3 December 2020 Cynthia Nixon In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, ‘What does your dad do?’ ‘What does your mom do?’
3 December 2020 Kurt Vonnegut True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
3 December 2020 Marian Wright Edelman I’m sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it’s outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.
3 December 2020 Louis MacNeice I am not yet born O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
3 December 2020 Francis Jeffrey There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
3 December 2020 Stephen Jay Gould Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
3 December 2020 Ken Jennings When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch.
