3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it.
3 December 2020 Robert Morgan Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
3 December 2020 Dave Lombardo Mike Patton is a genius… It is definitely the hardest music I’ve ever played.
3 December 2020 Dianne Feinstein ‘No Child Left Behind’ requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
3 December 2020 Michelle Pfeiffer I’ve never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There’s his humor and intelligence, too, and he’s really cute, all those things – but if you don’t respect your partner, you’ll get sick of him.
3 December 2020 Kurt Russell I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
3 December 2020 Glenn Beck Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There’s no understanding of it.
3 December 2020 Toru Takemitsu Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher – the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood – all those things feel really true to me.
3 December 2020 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
3 December 2020 Thomas Haden Church I believe in singularity in relationships because you’ve got to have trust on both sides.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Wales What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge – the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
3 December 2020 Jackson Browne I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I’m not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
3 December 2020 Arlie Russell Hochschild Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we’ve been doing it faster.
3 December 2020 Al Capp Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.
3 December 2020 Dido Armstrong I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don’t see things clearly as long as you’re still involved.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
3 December 2020 Paulo Coelho Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.
3 December 2020 Bruce Lee Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
3 December 2020 Oliver Reed I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn’t necessarily believe in.
3 December 2020 Charles Barkley Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
3 December 2020 Kate Adie I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
