Every accepted public quote

“Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.”

“I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.”

“The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate:...”

“None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.”

“I'm definitely tired of playing 'Acid Rap.' I'm definitely tired of playing 'Juice.'”

“I've heard all the coaches complaining about the new CBA rules limiting padded practice. I don't like the reduction to just 15 padded practices during the season. When I coached, we always p...”

“Music is the art of thinking with sounds.”

“Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philos...”

“Probably about 90 percent of the things that you read that supposedly came out of my mouth in regards to the Motley guys, usually most of it is incorrect. At the end of the day, I have no il...”

“It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.”

“Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.”

“Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!”

“When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.”

“For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancin...”

“A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.”

“People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see very clearly what Elizabeth Bennett has to overcome, what she has to deal wit...”

“Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.”

“Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely the most legendary Latin American boxer, and then having 'Ragin...”

“Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.”

“I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time aroun...”

“By 2012, I probably had, like, three stress reactions in my back. Two stress fractures in my fibula.”

“Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.”

“Our goal in Washington must not be to impose but to expect and assist: Expect the most of educators and students and assist them as they work together to meet those expectations. Rather than...”

“To achieve great success, you first have to learn to admire great failure.”

“The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.”

“When we see a strong correlation, and the matter at-hand is something with major health or safety or security implications, then we are behooved to at least begin taking preliminary precauti...”

“When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'”

“Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.”

“I really told my story as I saw it in 'Cross to Bear,' and I was pleased - and a bit surprised - by how well it was received and how it sold. No. 2 on the 'New York Times' bestseller list? I...”

“Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line.”

“I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interp...”

“I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.”

“Running the triangle offense, you have pretty much set rotations where you are going to be at.”

“Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.”

“An enthusiastic person who is very logical with his or her own thinking process, he or she can eventually express his or her thought with delight and humor to educate and entertain his or he...”

“In the political confusion and the torrid heat, I convinced myself that Madrid was the world's stomach and that I had been chosen for the task of restoring this digestive organ to health.”

“America's legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the United States from all over the globe to pursue their dreams.”

“I voted against H.R. 1119, which would weaken emissions standards for coal refuse power plants.”

“Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.”

“Israel will never surrender to hatred.”

“I always remember to go on the Staten Island Ferry because it's the most amazing view of New York. And it's free! You see Ellis Island, and it conjures up something of that great moment: you...”

“Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.”

“The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.”

“There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practic...”

“When you're a child, and you're growing up, and you're mimicking a certain character, or you're trying to live and breathe a certain character on set for eight years that are also your forma...”

“What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.”

“We should use our old moral values and our love of peace as the foundation of national reconstruction and look forward to the day when we shall become leaders in world reconstruction upon li...”

“To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.”