Every accepted public quote

“We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.”

“I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.”

“My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.”

“Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.”

“Yoga is not just repetation of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.”

“I don't look to celebrities for style anymore because I've learned the chain of command. They are being dressed by a stylist who's getting inspiration from a 16-year-old kid running the stre...”

“Defeat counts when you let it count. Nothing can defeat you unless and until you allow it to overcome your zeal to succeed.”

“Poems are difficult to silence.”

“There are no record companies in Waikiki.”

“Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.”

“When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won't have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect t...”

“Nobody knows the aftermath.”

“The biggest mistake that I have made in my life is choosing Najib.”

“People are really hesitant about expressing that they don't know something - but what's the big deal? I'm not ashamed about that at all.”

“Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think t...”

“I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.”

“My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do.”

“The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.”

“There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.”

“The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.”

“There should be no tolerance for cheaters, especially in fighting.”

“If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning.”

“I think cool moments like winning a Grammy deserve a nice little party where you really soak it in and not have to work and stuff. I do remember throwing a party on that Grammy night, but it...”

“I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective abou...”

“I was always that kid. When I got ice cream, I put it in my eye. When I got my license, I got pulled over so many times for playing 'Les Mis' too loud.”

“Somehow, I don't see myself doing a lead role.”

“Significant cuts to funding for the police, for the Crown Prosecution Service, for probation etc, have put the long-term viability of our criminal justice system in doubt.”

“Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same...”

“I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.”

“At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.”

“The problem when arguing with those who believe in atheistic evolution is that they move goal posts by redefining atheism or evolution or the word 'species.'”

“Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.”

“I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.”

“I want what's best for people who want to improve the quality of their life. I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life...”

“I see... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into...”

“In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we c...”

“My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party pie...”

“Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I beli...”

“Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. M...”

“This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something th...”

“For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, be...”

“Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! COME TO THE EDGE, And they came, And he pushed, And they flew”

“Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece o...”

“I'm hardened over many years. You toughen yourself for whatever job. You either take the good with the bad or don't bother.”

“I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.”

“Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as t...”

“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he lo...”

“He who avoids complaint invites happiness.”