Every accepted public quote

“We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and tear them apart? Or are we going think, like, listen - these people are here....”

“I always say the person who taught me how to sing indirectly because I listened to her all the time was Brandy. I fell in love with her voice when I was six years old. I always loved Brandy.”

“Derbies are always well fought and with lots of fouls and interruptions.”

“Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'”

“The Fed needs an approach that consolidates the gains of the Greenspan years and ensures that those successful policies will continue - even if future Fed chairmen are less skillful or less...”

“I have been privileged to write across multiple facets of my life: to write romance novels, to write memoir, to write about leadership, and to write tax and social policy articles. The act o...”

“The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.”

“No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot”

“I was a high school teacher when I joined Bullet Club and started going to Japan.”

“Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.”

“My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do t...”

“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”

“Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

“You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according...”

“Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the...”

“My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.”

“The letter K was the first one in the alphabet which had not, with more or less justification, been used to designate other vitamins, and it also happened to be the first letter in the word...”

“He isn't a codebase; he is a human being, and bugs are harder to spot and fix in humans. You can't just deploy a fix immediately. It takes time to identify the problem and foster and grow a...”

“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'”

“I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure t...”

“The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way...”

“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on....”

“Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.”

“We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlle...”

“There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.”

“I wouldn't have a career if it wasn't for the 'Fortnite' Community.”

“You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.”

“Let's give people more incentives to get fuel efficient vehicles.”

“I would rather risk failure than achieve it without risk.”

“I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.”

“Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.”

“The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.”

“As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.”

“Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.”

“Some people are too prideful to go out and reach out to people to help them in that situation because it's just such a dark time.”

“Every fall is a sign that you tried climbing.”

“In the future, it's going to become more and more impossible for the economy to support how expensive medical care is and the number of sick people we have. Why don't we just get our populat...”

“Being real is what is important.”

“Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.”

“I walked away from pro football and a $2.9 million contract with the San Francisco 49ers because I didn't want to develop CTE.”

“My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whe...”

“At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many...”

“One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are alread...”

“The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.”

“So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards speaking engagements and literary festivals and dinner...”

“My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I'm aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to fil...”

“I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.”

“My hits are not hits.”