Every accepted public quote

“I think I sound like Barry White.”

“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.”

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.”

“I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.”

“I wound up graduating from the Los Angeles County School for the Arts as a theatre major and then was honored to be accepted into Carnegie Mellon's Musical Theatre program.”

“I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is...”

“Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.”

“It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”

“If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful peopl...”

“I grew up loving X-Men, Spider-Man and Batman. Those are obviously the key big ones, but there's always something kind of cool about Aquaman still, the idea of creating a huge world that is...”

“The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.”

“It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we h...”

“A real relationship doesn't properly begin until the NRE burns away. That's when you have to start dealing with this person as an all-around human being, replete with irritating little habit...”

“The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries.”

“When I got home, I looked around and thought that it was about time for a good cry. A really serious one.”

“The No Child Left Behind Act will be one of President Bush's enduring legacies. And it was engineered and inaugurated with a truly bipartisan coalition in Congress. Accountability, standards...”

“I'm probably wouldn't do anything differently if I had to do it again. Every little thing that happens to you, good and bad, becomes a little piece of the puzzle of who you become. Every suc...”

“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.”

“I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public.”

“From 1945 to 1974, the Western world - including America - was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.”

“Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse p...”

“Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.”

“I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to...”

“Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.”

“We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.”

“I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local...”

“I prefer black music in general.”

“It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and t...”

“Voting is an individual, personal thing.”

“For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.”

“Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.”

“Fine!' she snapped, the desperation to have him growing exponentially now. 'I missed you. Only you. No man could ever make me feel like you do. I'm ruined for all others. I renamed all my vi...”

“Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.”

“My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lesso...”

“People think, 'Oh, you're doing 'The Wiz' because 'Empire' is such a big hit.' The truth is, staging this musical has been a dream of ours since the '90s, but the rights were tied up. It's j...”

“'The Lobster,' at some point, was my most accessible film. Then I made 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer,' which turned out to be not as accessible as 'The Lobster.' It was the film I wanted to...”

“I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.”

“When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then...”

“The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.”

“Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against...”

“I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild berries, and I close my eyes until I see our shadow behind thi...”

“I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.”

“If parents shield their children from real feelings, kids falsely imagine their parents are in constant control of themselves - and may try to emulate them.”

“Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.”

“My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.”

“I can't walk through the airport without grandmothers and daughters and little kids saying, 'I watch you on Celebrity Apprentice.' That's a good feeling.”

“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every s...”

“It's such a shame, really, because we were known for our country of saints and scholars, and we grew up with such a great tradition with St. Patrick, and he is the one who brought Christiani...”