3 December 2020 Paul Merton I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who’d spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.
3 December 2020 Chen Shui-bian I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
3 December 2020 Ty Cobb I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
3 December 2020 Andrew Bird I don’t write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
3 December 2020 Pamela Anderson Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.
3 December 2020 Marian Wright Edelman A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
3 December 2020 Anna Paquin It’s great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you’re leaving your other life behind.
3 December 2020 Ellen DeGeneres When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.
3 December 2020 Bob Barr Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
3 December 2020 R. Lee Ermey When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn’t seem like it’s any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
3 December 2020 Diablo Cody I don’t know why, but I’ve always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
3 December 2020 Dennis Potter The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
3 December 2020 David Sarnoff We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
3 December 2020 Samantha Fox All my life, it’s been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Kramnik Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent’s can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
3 December 2020 Mark Rydell It’s very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it’s oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.
3 December 2020 Erica Jong I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that won’t pay the Bergdorf’s bill. I think I’ll move to somewhere life is cheaper.
3 December 2020 Harold H. Greene There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn’t get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
3 December 2020 Anais Nin There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
3 December 2020 Peter Thiel People don’t want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology – all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.
