Every accepted public quote

“If I am just, like, on a run by myself, I've never been stopped. Even if I'm at Target buying my own action figure, people would not believe that it's me. I actually was like, 'This is me!'”

“When I play my match, I can't think about anything else except what I'm doing on my side of the net.”

“Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?”

“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”

“Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.”

“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all t...”

“We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.”

“They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache.”

“We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.”

“The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.”

“I have met Stan and Josh Kroenke, and it's clear they have great ambitions for the club and are committed to bringing future success. I'm excited about what we can do together, and I look fo...”

“My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.”

“Love is. Love can. Love will.”

“We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.”

“What is more important than your son? Still, we send our sons to fight at the borders of the nation. Similarly, for the sake of development of our country, we have to give away our land. Not...”

“What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country an...”

“Freedom comes when you're Brave Enough to chase your dreams, and achieve the Success and Financial Freedom you want. In order to be FREE, you have to be BRAVE.”

“At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.”

“It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think o...”

“Sometimes comparing can be a good thing: it can inspire us to work harder and reach farther. But for the most part, excessive measuring yourself up against others - especially when it become...”

“At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earni...”

“In the founders, I look for a person I feel is trustworthy, driven and smart. I invest in the person first, because in the event the business fails, the person and I can move forward and cre...”

“It just didn't seem to fit the story and lineage, I guess. So I just sort of surrounded 'Blood Bank' with three other songs that were very different from one other, and they all kind of came...”

“We didn't build the modern country to be bike-friendly - our initial round of infrastructure was not designed to think about how to get around if you're not in a car. So we've got to be targ...”

“I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feelin...”

“I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.”

“In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.”

“When my body, my energy is low, it's hard for me to be a good husband, hard for me to be a good father... hard for me to be a good artist.”

“When we focus on our humanity and not our ethnicity or religion, we allow unity to connect us with our diversity to the one who created us all in his divinity.”

“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”

“As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.”

“You become the co-author of your own misfortunes, the moment you go through life dancing to the tune of family, friends, co-workers or the community at large. Find your own voice!”

“And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I...”

“When you're accustomed to wealth, you don't show it, right? That's why the white kids in school could wear bummy sneakers; it's almost like, 'Don't show wealth - that's crass.'”

“By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going...”

“There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. 'The Wire' and 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos.'”

“The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.”

“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

“I never thought I'd play basketball in China.”

“Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod.”

“Senescence begins And middle age ends, The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.”

“My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.”

“I feel like I thrive in the red light.”

“I worked as a truck driver, carpenter's assistant, doing whatever it took to keep bread on the table for the family.”

“I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to...”

“Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.”

“I was living in my lovely little two-bedroom flat in north London... and suddenly, I couldn't just walk down the street and buy a pint of milk.”

“You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.”