3 December 2020 Ice T I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it’s about.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
3 December 2020 Patricia Heaton It’s a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
3 December 2020 Zhang Ziyi I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn’t just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom’s voice that I came out of my hiding place.
3 December 2020 Kingman Brewster, Jr. Maybe you are the ‘cool’ generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
3 December 2020 Carol Moseley Braun The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
3 December 2020 Bettie Page Sex is a part of love. You shouldn’t go around doing it unless you are in love.
3 December 2020 A. A. Milne If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
3 December 2020 Percy Bysshe Shelley Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
3 December 2020 Georg Simmel Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
3 December 2020 A. R. Ammons That’s a wonderful change that’s taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
3 December 2020 Whitney Cummings I’m the one who’s dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I’m probably not the first person on their list – the weird, quirky, funny girl.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Schiller The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation – not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they’re going to be.
3 December 2020 Robert Morgan The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
3 December 2020 Giambattista Valli Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn’t just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.
3 December 2020 Vernor Vinge But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
3 December 2020 Tom Jones I think it’s good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.
3 December 2020 Matt Blunt Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.
3 December 2020 Alyssa Milano Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?
3 December 2020 Jane Austen It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.