3 December 2020 Julie Taymor But I don’t think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare’s Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.
3 December 2020 Andrew Coyle Bradley In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
3 December 2020 Paul Nurse Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.
3 December 2020 Emma Roberts I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She’s a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I’ve tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.
3 December 2020 Charles C. Mann The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
3 December 2020 Summer Altice I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.
3 December 2020 Daniel Day-Lewis At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
3 December 2020 Abu Bakar Bashir The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
3 December 2020 William Wordsworth The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
3 December 2020 Bruce Nauman Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work – though it’s not necessarily evident in anything that’s finished.
3 December 2020 David Bowie I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange I never thought I would be.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
3 December 2020 Claude Debussy Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
3 December 2020 Maggie Smith It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
3 December 2020 Wangari Maathai It’s a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
3 December 2020 Petra Nemcova I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there’s a concert, I’m there.
3 December 2020 Buck Owens I was always very grateful to ’em and am grateful to ’em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.
3 December 2020 Chris Christie And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I’ve been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I’m no different when I’m sitting with you than I am when I’m at home or anyplace else.
3 December 2020 Eric Burdon I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California – it’s the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.
3 December 2020 Troy Vincent As you get older, you’re always maturing, you’re always learning something new about yourself.
3 December 2020 Christian Nestell Bovee They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
3 December 2020 Nat King Cole Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.