3 December 2020 Mark Hoppus Parents don’t understand kids and kids don’t understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.
3 December 2020 Ruben Studdard My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people’s opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.
3 December 2020 Laura Hillenbrand Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, ‘If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.’
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I’ve also never run to the movies because something’s in 3-D.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
3 December 2020 Mary Augusta Ward English girls’ schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
3 December 2020 Jenson Button I don’t purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn’t give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can’t go fast enough. It’s never going to be anything like an F1 car.
3 December 2020 Robert Kennedy Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
3 December 2020 Andrei Sakharov Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
3 December 2020 Itzhak Perlman For people who are really talented, what you don’t say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.
3 December 2020 John Calvin All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
3 December 2020 Regina King I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, ‘Wow, this is cool!’
3 December 2020 Lee Haney The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results.
3 December 2020 Melissa George Mum and dad thought I was going to say I was pregnant. I said oh no, no, I’ve just been nominated for a Golden Globe. They were like, oh that’s lovely, love.
3 December 2020 Dean Koontz There’s sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
3 December 2020 Adriana Trigiani You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
3 December 2020 Carl Rogers The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
3 December 2020 David Bailey It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
3 December 2020 John Charles Polanyi Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
3 December 2020 Robert Lanza I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.
3 December 2020 Thomas Friedman The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.