Every accepted public quote

“The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.”

“One word that seems to connect both leaders and employees is: 'outcomes.' Built into that word is the implicit and explicit understanding and agreement that effective actions lead to good ou...”

“But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.”

“Not knowing my birthday had never seemed strange. I knew I'd been born near the end of September, and each year I picked a day, one that didn't fall on a Sunday because it's no fun spending...”

“And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.”

“Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.”

“Pizza is definitely my favorite food. I usually go with a pepperoni and sausage mix. But I love the New York-style thin crust.”

“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”

“Trump has no sense of shame.”

“I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim...”

“I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families.”

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.”

“If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company.”

“There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.”

“No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.”

“Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.”

“I could feel the gravitational pull of home, which when I'm home too long becomes the gravitational pull of somewhere else.”

“The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled.”

“Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.”

“Because a man is placed in charge of a club does not make it necessary for him to be a taskmaster or a tyrant. In my opinion, he ought to be as lenient with his club as circumstances allow,...”

“I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.”

“I've been lucky to do the job I do because I've travelled, and that's probably the best perk of the job... well, that and the free lunches.”

“Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease.”

“In 'The Condemned,' if you saw the movie, that's all me; I'll go toe to toe with anyone in an action movie.”

“I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.”

“Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.”

“Every day, and in every way, I am becoming better and better.”

“There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head an...”

“If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.”

“I've been on investigations where a spirit is channeling through me, and I have extreme changes in my emotions - anger, sadness, confusion. Then I begin seeing visions that are not mine. The...”

“Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.”

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”

“it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.”

“Some of the best scams that you get are the ones that pretend to come from friends of yours, because you can just say anything you want, because a scammer has no idea about your relationship...”

“But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.”

“We think we want all the time in the world with the people we love, but maybe what we need is the opposite. Just a finite amount of time, so we still think the other person is interesting. M...”

“A scenario is, everyone takes gene therapy - not just curing rare diseases like cystic fibrosis, but diseases that everyone has, like aging.”

“In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.”

“Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.”

“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”

“My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.”

“The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywher...”

“It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.”

“For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing...”

“You have to be patient, efficient with your moves, and attuned to what's happening with your body physically. The key is not to rush or panic. You wait and wait and wait - and then strike.”

“I'd like to say it is only average people who revel in the mistakes of others.”

“I am always on the lookout for roles which will help me better myself.”

“No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom...”