Every accepted public quote

“I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren't good. I mucked around, you know, a phase everyone went through.”

“Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers...”

“I look forward to being a voice of reason in fighting for transparent and accountable budgets.”

“We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide securit...”

“This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.”

“The primary goal is to entertain people because... Fortunately, the kind of movies I have been doing have a certain message, they break taboos, and they are socially relevant. So it's a grea...”

“Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.”

“Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the po...”

“Dirk Nowitzki is the best European player, for me, that's ever played the game. He's an unbelievable talent.”

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously...”

“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great co...”

“The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.”

“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the h...”

“Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities. And they can pressurise public ad...”

“When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.”

“Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.”

“Bacon has been a staple of the American diet since the first European settlers, but until recently, it was consumed in a predictable, seasonal pattern. The bulk of sales came from home consu...”

“Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.”

“I always love where I can plug a black woman in anywhere, and when that comes up, I don't say, 'Oh that has to be a black woman.' I say, 'Why not a black woman?'”

“Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.”

“I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.”

“Evil prospers when good men do nothing.”

“I started playing golf when I was just out of college and starting my career with KPMG. I took a few lessons, and my husband has always loved to give me pointers - for better and for worse!...”

“But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another canno...”

“People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to...”

“I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift o...”

“I have resolved to strengthen my strength, in all avenues that I can. However, I have also resolved, I will measure my success not by other's standards, but by my own. We will never reach ou...”

“When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness.”

“I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a differen...”

“Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move...”

“By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.”

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”

“There's a magical energy and power from the ocean. I was born in a room overlooking the sea, in the middle of a storm. Perhaps, then, it's not surprising that shores touch my soul. Science m...”

“Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a simple as that. We do stuff like that on and off.”

“One can say Senator Sanders should have more explicit antiracist policy within his racial justice platform, not just more general stuff, and still cast a vote for Senator Sanders and still f...”

“But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.”

“The Ethereum client is literally a fork of Chromium's webkit backend. The idea is that users can build their own interfaces with HTML/JavaScript just like websites, and they will be viewable...”

“Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.”

“I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really...”

“We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premises about our employment without having the opportunity to verify them.”

“I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.”

“My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.”

“I am hopeful that one day I will meet that right man and will have a very happy life partner.”

“Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice - just policy. pg. 504”

“A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, a...”

“It is symptomatic of the constricting specialism and the oppressive burden of fact of our time that it has been left to the imagination of a novelist, Marguerite Yourcenar, to create the bro...”

“A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.”

“'Best Man Holiday' was a very successful film.”