3 December 2020 Dan Stevens All my early school reports from the age of 5 were ‘Daniel must learn not to distract others.’
3 December 2020 Muqtada al Sadr I don’t want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don’t want to be controlled by the U.S.
3 December 2020 Hugh Bonneville A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.
3 December 2020 Taylor Swift When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
3 December 2020 David Ogden Stiers Because I don’t take money, I’ll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
3 December 2020 Michael Korda The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
3 December 2020 Edsger Dijkstra Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
3 December 2020 Gail Simmons There’s not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they’re serving.
3 December 2020 Quentin Tarantino My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
3 December 2020 Robert Sternberg There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them.
3 December 2020 Colm Meaney I love doing comedy. You don’t get many good comedy scripts. They’re rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it’s very human.
3 December 2020 Eric Bana I have a theory that I really want my kids to know – the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
3 December 2020 Maria Mitchell I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.
3 December 2020 Michael Morpurgo Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
3 December 2020 Gennifer Flowers I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.
3 December 2020 Bill Rancic This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.
3 December 2020 Aristotle In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
3 December 2020 Stephen Greenblatt What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
3 December 2020 James Madison The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
3 December 2020 Audrey Hepburn For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
3 December 2020 Steven Adler My health is wonderful. I work out. I’m working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I’m blessed. I survived.
3 December 2020 Sam Houston The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
3 December 2020 James Lovelock There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.