3 December 2020 Lianne La Havas I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
3 December 2020 Robert Redford Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
3 December 2020 Emile Zola The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
3 December 2020 Edsger Dijkstra Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
3 December 2020 Arthur Smith It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
3 December 2020 Anais Nin Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
3 December 2020 Jeff Foxworthy My grandma’s the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she’s doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!
3 December 2020 Renee Fleming I’ve spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
3 December 2020 Suzanne Fields A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children’s lives can’t.
3 December 2020 Harvey S. Firestone Our company is built on people – those who work for us, and those we do business with.
3 December 2020 Theodore Bikel I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
3 December 2020 Tracey Emin What is truth? Truth doesn’t really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
3 December 2020 Alfred A. Montapert Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
3 December 2020 Robin Gibb When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you’d go, what did you just play… immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That’s what we’re going to miss.
3 December 2020 Juan Antonio Samaranch Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
3 December 2020 Tabare Vazquez Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it’s time for you to get out of the way.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.
3 December 2020 Ella Maillart Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
3 December 2020 David Korten More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
