Every accepted public quote

“I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-Am...”

“Critics must use clear facts and an insightful cognitive paradigm to back up their argument if they want to negate other people's thoughts and opinions about a specific person, place,and/or...”

“If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.”

“Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.”

“When I say, 'doin' it, doin' it, doin' it' to a group of small business owners, they immediately respond. They recognize the experience of doing the same things over and over. Keeping the bu...”

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

“While problems in a film are fairly easy to identify, the sources of those problems are often extraordinarily difficult to assess. A mystifying plot twist or a less-than-credible change of h...”

“Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!”

“The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.”

“In my family, I was loved, but only if I would fight this gay thing and not let it take over me. I would be loved unconditionally if I could be cured of my 'sickness,' but it certainly would...”

“Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.”

“I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside...”

“I felt that I'd rather be lucky than good. That's the aspect I kept bringing to baseball. The more superstitions I had, the better off I'd have of finding more luck.”

“I like to go home early, that's my thing. My idea of a pub crawl lasts from midday until 5 P.M., then I can go home, play with my kid, have tea and go to bed.”

“The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.”

“Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the shortening of time between the discovery of...”

“We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who...”

“I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'”

“A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.”

“I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.”

“My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.”

“I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!”

“There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse.”

“I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation...”

“Guess what? I am an ordinary person.”

“And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to cre...”

“Flowers in your garden always turn in the direction of light because they instinctively recognize their source of energy, strength & renewal. Let you become the source of light, hope, faith,...”

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”

“For me, seeing the progression of video games and consoles - whether it be PlayStation, Xbox, or whatever - I think just seeing how good they've gotten from the days when I first started pla...”

“I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.”

“It took a while to learn to eat healthy on road. It's really hard. Really, really hard. But on the bus, I can use the stovetop in the morning to make a veggie scramble. And have lots and lot...”

“I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.”

“In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer month...”

“'A Walk to Remember' was a huge movie for me. I thought Mandy Moore was the coolest thing that ever happened. And Shane West - man, did I have a crush on him.”

“People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of...”

“To me, there's so much talent in the world that's locked out for the wrong reasons, whether it's innovators at the highest end where we need to change the regulation systems, or whether it's...”

“My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.”

“I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of t...”

“In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a su...”

“We will cooperate with whoever is best... as long as they choose us as well. It cannot be merely unrequited love.”

“I wanted to study at the Art Students League in New York when I was young, but I didn't have the money. Then I was fortunate enough to become Johnny Cougar Mellencamp. At the time, I thought...”

“I always liked the double cutaway. It looked like two horns. It's like a red devil. So I went to the guitar shop, saw an SG that was sitting there looking rather lonely, and said, 'Hey, that...”

“We now think of internal representation as great big vectors, and we do not think of logic as the paradigm for how to get things to work. We just think you can have these great big neural ne...”

“What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?”

“There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.”

“I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.”

“He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a mo...”

“I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.”