3 December 2020 Ezra Koenig I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent – things I’d never thought about before.
3 December 2020 Bode Miller It’s nice, being brought up with no money at all. It’s just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
3 December 2020 Klaus Fuchs I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.
3 December 2020 Howie Carr Reporters used to be blue-collar at the Globe now, it’s practically required that you have a trust fund.
3 December 2020 Marilyn French Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
3 December 2020 Mick Jagger Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
3 December 2020 Salvador Dali Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
3 December 2020 Shelby Foote I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of – I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
3 December 2020 Brian Tracy All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
3 December 2020 Seth Godin The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there’s no ball, there’s no game. Bullies hate that. So they’ll either behave so they can play with you or they’ll go bully someone else.
3 December 2020 Simone de Beauvoir Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
3 December 2020 Andrea Mitchell They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.
3 December 2020 Condoleezza Rice We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.
3 December 2020 Jim Valvano I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
3 December 2020 Desiderius Erasmus Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
3 December 2020 Richard Russo My books are elegiac in the sense that they’re odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
3 December 2020 Kim Jong-un The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.
3 December 2020 Munshi Premchand Beauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
3 December 2020 Arne Jacobsen Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one’s entire life.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit’s foot of their particular religion. You don’t really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
3 December 2020 Anne Stevenson Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
3 December 2020 James Madison Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
3 December 2020 Leon Uris I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
3 December 2020 Alexander Payne Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it’s up to us to try to change it… I feel like a preacher! But it’s really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
3 December 2020 Arthur Keith Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
