Every accepted public quote

“When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped the border. I didn't speak any English.”

“Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.”

“In the legislative branch, you make the laws... and our role as judges is to interpret the law, not to inject our own policy preferences. So our task is to give an honest construction to wha...”

“I'd done an Edinburgh show before, in 1981, called 'The Importance of Being Varnished' - I was in the pun trade at the time.”

“I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.”

“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.”

“To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.”

“Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.”

“I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.”

“No show can be 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' including 'The Gayle King Show.' I think she's very good but I think I'm very good too. I think we have different skill sets... but I don't think tha...”

“I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.”

“My parents took me to Sam Ash, and I got a pretty cheap setup - a MIDI keyboard and one of those cheaper mixers - but it was dope, though; it was something. That was kind of how it was: just...”

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”

“I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely ter...”

“Dell will participate in tablets and all sorts of client devices. Our main business is helping our customers secure, protect their data and access it from any device they want to.”

“Everything becomes beautiful when you see it through the amazing light of your being.”

“I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat d...”

“I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment o...”

“With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum...”

“Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.”

“I love connecting with the fan base and sharing my experiences.”

“It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.”

“We kind of look at music as something very natural in people's lives. I mean, most of us can relate to music in some sort of shape and form, and if you think about it, most of us remember th...”

“When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'”

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

“My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.”

“I love a good, old-fashioned sliced apple sprinkled with salt and cinnamon, and sometimes cayenne, to enhance the flavor and give it a kick.”

“A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fanta...”

“Gauguin is creepy - let's just face it. He goes off into the Pacific, and he's looking at these young girls, and the colonial gaze: It's just really problematic.”

“Even if all things turn to ash, you will still have hope. Oh, darling, there is an unfathomable power in the love of hope. The thought that there is something, is indubitable. Love is hope a...”

“In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.”

“You can't have empathy for somebody that's gone through something you haven't - because, definitionally, you can't. But you can feel for them and have sympathy for them. And that's what this...”

“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.”

“People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.”

“Sometimes, the one you love isn't the one for you and this doesn't apply only in relationships, but also among relatives.”

“I had this thesis that we had entered the experience economy. People were getting married later and starting to value experiences like travel over owning things.”

“We must work hard to ensure that Social Security remains solvent for future generations.”

“Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.”

“I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.”

“I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.”

“Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always kn...”

“For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength.”

“If tomorrow the good Lord decides that's my last day, then I'm not going to go down with a frown. I'm going down with a smile on my face, knowing that I've gotten everything out of life.”

“I have never given adoration to any body except myself.”

“Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.”

“Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyo...”

“Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?”

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”