Every accepted public quote

“If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.”

“Contraception doesn't define a woman.”

“I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.”

“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”

“Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.”

“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”

“Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visu...”

“He did not use these things anymore, and yet, the thought of letting them go made him sad. He felt they represented times in his life he could not recall without their presence. They represe...”

“You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.”

“If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.”

“It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.”

“The Sunnis no longer recognize the centralized government as a legitimate power. The Shia militia that is moving around is calling out war crimes that are anti-Sunni. So, the Sunnis are in a...”

“Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.”

“I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their...”

“Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.”

“There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”

“We need to look to the future. You can't come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There's no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants.”

“But practically I know men and recognize them by their behavior, by the totality of their deeds, by the consequences caused in life by their presence.”

“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”

“When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.”

“A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.”

“Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.”

“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”

“The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-thro...”

“New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.”

“Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a...”

“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”

“When I started Shutterstock, I tried to get people access to big events. It's very hard to keep up, to publish them quick, and to get the right photographers.”

“I liked to hang around my mom's beauty salon, watching her do hair.”

“Traditional Anglicans - whether in Nigeria or Nottingham - have been wary, at best, of the acceptance and welcome given to gay men and women and their sexual choices by secular society.”

“In my view, the Conservative Party is the party best equipped to defend the British way of life.”

“There isn't really precedent for asylum seekers' being criminally prosecuted at the border before they've had a 'credible fear' hearing. You come seeking asylum. Seeking asylum is not illega...”

“Connection fosters trust which inspires engagement which impacts productivity which drives valuation.”

“We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell resear...”

“I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.”

“Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and...”

“He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself.”

“You can buy momentary fame with money, but not authenticity that lasts for thousands of years.”

“My tattoos have become a part of me. When I look in the mirror, I just see my face.”

“The only business owners that fail are the ones who gave up.”

“Just being a girl coming from YouTube, I know what it's like to have a very humble, simple beginning. It would be kinda crazy for my fans if I made it huge in that way and became the next bi...”

“If you do same thing again and again, how will you learn something new?”

“Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.”

“I don't want to be one of these guys who sits in a room watching old footage of himself, reliving old glory. It's just not me. I want to create new adventures. I'm not trying to live vicario...”

“In 'Forbidden Love,' my character is a divorcee who has an affair with a young doctor. They are blissfully happy and have everything going for them. But their peers, friends, her daughter, a...”

“I think that most people would associate big schools of fish with healthy coral reefs. At Kingman, the predators keep the herd thin, so there aren't a lot of big fish schools.”

“Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.”

“I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.”