Every accepted public quote

“The family unit is fundamental for the educational process and for the development both of individuals and states; hence there is a need for policies which promote the family and aid social...”

“Fear is just excitement in need of an attitude adjustment.”

“If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.”

“To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.”

“What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be b...”

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”

“People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.”

“Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wa...”

“I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.”

“I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.”

“I eat junk food, cheesecake, cheese, pizza - but just lower amounts of it.”

“You're Valentine's son. I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming. Maybe not at the moment.”

“Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.”

“As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily...”

“I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which th...”

“Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only...”

“I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished record...”

“I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I am at a loss to account for the existence and arrangement of the visible universe, and, bei...”

“What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.”

“People generalize music by how you look, and I don't like that.”

“I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.”

“I love my 'Survivor's Remorse' cast. They are so funny and crazy, like a big dysfunctional family. It's so much fun, and I love the issues that we talk about on that show. We deal with nuanc...”

“What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?”

“I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.”

“It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.”

“When it comes to wildfires, 2013 wasn't a good year, which is why I'm especially proud that the majority of my wildfire prevention legislation was signed into law today.”

“Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a lon...”

“I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.”

“There's no difference if you're a supermodel or if you've lost both your legs. What are you doing that's beautiful or ugly on the inside?”

“If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.”

“Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.”

“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to cho...”

“There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.”

“I like the end of the year to be about something. Especially with younger shows, the network pushes you to make self-contained episodes; they don't like them to be serialized: 'We want this...”

“As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'”

“Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.”

“You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.”

“He gave her a lopsided grin that buckled her knees. Stole her breath. Made her heart zing a hundred miles an hour. Maybe it was a good thing Caden Wallis didn't smile more often.”

“I'm not that interested in female superheroes.”

“People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the sa...”

“I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recog...”

“Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so many gaps. The small west of Ireland cities and the working classes there have al...”

“YouTube is growing up, is basically my view of it. Growing up means our creators are growing up; they're getting more well known. We're providing programs for them to generate more revenue s...”

“Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the...”

“Peace and security in the Asia-Pacific will turn on whether China emerges as a xenophobic, chauvinistic force, bitter and hostile to the West because it tried to slow down or abort its devel...”

“George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.”

“AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Wats...”

“I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things tha...”