Every accepted public quote

“He who has great power should use it lightly.”

“My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whe...”

“Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work...”

“I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.”

“I would die in a ditch for the impartiality of the BBC.”

“Michael Rooker is like the Merle Haggard of the acting world. Never a dull moment.”

“I'm finally having my TV removed and replaced by a tropical fish tank, which I hope will provide more interesting viewing.”

“I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets around stars makes electrons dance in your heart. It is in you, outside you, you are it....”

“I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.”

“I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.”

“From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the wo...”

“I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.”

“Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.”

“I try to keep things simple. Reading and analysing the wicket as soon as possible is important. Sometimes you run after wickets, but I focus on team goals - what the team wants me to do righ...”

“My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.”

“I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.”

“Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.”

“I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.”

“I wrote the chorus specifically for 'Same Love' as a narration of my story. I decided to release 'She Keeps Me Warm' as an extension of the chorus because I felt like there was more that nee...”

“Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting o...”

“If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.”

“'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad.”

“I feel like if you told me I would be having a son, I would be like, 'Yeah, I'm gonna be a parent - I get that.' But when the doctor was like, 'You're gonna have a girl,' I was like, 'What?...”

“Confidence is a crucial building block in a successful career, and embracing it fully will take you places you never thought possible. With proper guidance and hard work, anyone can become m...”

“You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family?...”

“Dress yourself to define yourself.”

“Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems.”

“The sun will rise again. The only uncertainty is whether or not we will rise to greet it. Alan Christensen's diary”

“A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.”

“There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But...”

“With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.”

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

“When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasse...”

“Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It's like FedEx - t...”

“How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfet raigns.”

“There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.”

“Maria Sharapova winning Wimbledon at 17, I don't think that's ever going to happen again. It's a different game now. I need to stay focused and work on my game, and it will come.”

“The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.”

“When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.”

“I went to school at the University of Utah, and they had outstanding facilities and coaches that helped me grow and mature as a person.”

“People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.”

“We're all trapped in the digital world. It's filled with cat videos, and you have to dodge comments about how much you stink.”

“Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us.”

“To every man according to his ability.”

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”

“If I can recover the sovereignty, I think Europe will change completely. It will change radically. And if I cannot the sovereignty back, then I will ask the French people to leave the E.U.”

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“The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mains...”