3 December 2020 John Cusack The movies have got more corporate, they’re making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
3 December 2020 Jennifer M. Granholm Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I’m gone. But I know that the steps we’re taking are the right steps.
3 December 2020 Suze Orman Owning a home is a keystone of wealth – both financial affluence and emotional security.
3 December 2020 Stanley Kubrick A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
3 December 2020 Mike Ferguson Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
3 December 2020 Steve Ross You can’t operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
3 December 2020 Bowie Kuhn So it’s been a slow process and it’s taken some patience. That’s why patients are called patients I think – patience is required.
3 December 2020 Michael K. Simpson Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.
3 December 2020 George Oppen Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
3 December 2020 Petra Nemcova We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn’t have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.
3 December 2020 Paul Walker Surfing soothes me, it’s always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I’m on a wave.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
3 December 2020 Magnus Carlsen I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don’t get homesick.
3 December 2020 Terry Eagleton Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is ‘The Book of British Birds,’ and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
3 December 2020 John Paul Jones If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
3 December 2020 Amy Ray The best days I have are usually days where I’m out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.
3 December 2020 Michael Behe The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
3 December 2020 Andy Warhol I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
3 December 2020 Albert Schweitzer Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
3 December 2020 Lana Parrilla I actually study boxing – my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
3 December 2020 Alma Guillermoprieto I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don’t cook very much. I love kitchens.
