Every accepted public quote

“As technology plays a major role inside and outside the classroom, we want to make sure education innovation is accessible.”

“There is a part of 'Wonder Woman' inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. We are all caretakers, giving birth, caring for our children and companions and...”

“I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.”

“Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.”

“Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.”

“Pasta is my superfood! Balance and moderation are the basis for my diet, though, so I also make sure to incorporate plenty of protein, fruits, and veggies throughout the day.”

“All around me, I see girls forced to become rat racers in the College Application Industrial Complex, the subculture where students must craft themselves into the perfect specimens for colle...”

“I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.”

“You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you r...”

“Churches need to be intentional about reaching the next generation by creating templates for young people to see that there is a stepping stone for leadership in this church.”

“Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how s...”

“Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.”

“What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.”

“Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what...”

“I'm a great lover, I'll bet.”

“Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political pric...”

“No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.”

“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help...”

“There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out...”

“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”

“I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments.”

“I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.”

“Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.”

“We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.”

“Most of us only put in as much effort as a situation requires from us. If we can 'get away' with being less considerate or less reciprocal, and various other forms of 'getting without giving...”

“I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.”

“Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restor...”

“I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.”

“Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that ther...”

“Roadside bombs that Iran sent to Iraq to blow up over 500 American soldiers cost a lot less than $1.7 billion.”

“Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...”

“I really - I just wanna sing. And I wanna show people that I can sing.”

“My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealo...”

“I hate being up onstage with a microphone.”

“Like, 100 percent, I hate spiders. I thought I really liked them, and I learned that was just false. I really can't be around spiders. It scares me so much.”

“I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.”

“This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective co...”

“Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.”

“A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be re...”

“With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.”

“Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and...”

“Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.”

“Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?”

“I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.”

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”

“The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.”

“The discovery of the Terror in, of all places, Terror Bay, on the southwest coast of King William Island, was the culmination of years of exertions by the Arctic Research Foundation (ARF) in...”

“Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention.”